Intel road map on schedule

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Intel has yet again updated its processor roadmap showcasing that they are on schedule with their upcoming products such as Skylake, Broadwell, Braswell and the new mobility cores. There have been widespread rumors that Intel would be delaying their Skylake processors to 2016 but a second roadmap update debunks the false claims showing that 2015 would be a major update in regards to processor architecture and technology with the simultaneous launch of a Tick (Broadwell) and Tock (Skylake).

Intel Core M
Intel has already launched their first iteration of their chips based on the Broadwell architecture codenamed “Core M”. Core M is based on a trune 14nm node from Intel and the same node would be carried over to the performance oriented chips arriving in Spring of 2015. Intel’s Core M will be adopted by performance tablets and mainstream notebooks in this quarter
 

 

Intel 5th Generation Broadwell – Core i7-5000 and Core i5-5000 Series Processors

The desktop chips have been confirmed to feature Intel’s 8th generation Iris Pro  graphics chips. Intel Iris Pro graphics chips features double the execution units of the HD 4600 graphics chip (40 vs 20) and comes with its own 128 MB of on-package eDRAM codenamed ‘CrystalWell’. The Crystalwell eDRAM is located on a separate package on the CPU die. On 8th generation Broadwell, the CPU is going to feature a total of 48 execution units with support for DirectX 12 API, VP8 Codec, 2xMSAA Support, Improved Tessellation and Low CPU Overhead. There will also be a power controller on chip. This will allow as much as C10 level of low power state computing. the U and H variants will both have a Extreme Tuning Utility which will allow easy overclocking of both the CPU and GPU. In such a case, we can obviously expect better performance from the Broadwell line of Core processors.

 

Broadwell-K (Unlocked) to be arriving in the 1H of 2015. Broadwell-K will be compatible with the LGA 1150 socketed motherboards featuring the 9-Series chipsets (Z97/H97). Broadwell-K is similar to Devil’s Canyon which were the enthusiast Haswell parts built for overclockers. You can call these Devil’s Canyon II (not an official name) and will be part of Intel’s 5th Generation Core family featuring the Core i5-5000 and Core i7-5000 series processors.
 

Intel 6th Generation Skylake – Core i7-6000 and Core i5-6000 Series Processors

Coming 2H of 2015 in the form of Skylake-S. Now Skylake is also based on a 14nm architecture but its a microarchitecture built from the ground up. Skylake will feature compatibility with the LGA 1151 socketed motherboards based on the 100-Series (Z170/H170) series Sunrise Point chipset.

The transition to Z170 chipset will not be a massive upgrade and would be similar to what the Z97 was to Z87 with a little added features such as more PCI-e lanes, Super Speed USB and up to 10 USB ports compared to 6 standard ones found on the current iteration of motherboards. There will be a total of six 100-series chipset SKUs which will include the Z170 (Performance)replacing the Z97, H170 (Mainstream) replacing the H97, H110 (Value) replacing the H81, B150 (Small and medium Business) replacing the B85 and the Q170 plus Q150 chips with Intel vPro / SIPP which will replace the Q87 and Q85.

The Z170 would be the flagship performance chipset which will support the unlocked K-Series Skylake. The chipset will feature up to 20 PCIe Gen 3 lanes, 6 SATA Gen 3 ports, 10 USB 3.0 ports and a total of 14 total USB ports (USB 3.0 / USB 2.0), up to 3 SATA Express capable ports, up to 3 Intel RST capable PCI-e storage ports which may include x2 SATA Express or M.2 SSD port with Enhanced SPI and x4/x8/x16 capable Gen 3 PCI-Express support from the processor.

 

New Wireless technology on the 100-Series chipset such as Snowfield Peak (WiFi + Blue-tooth) replacing Wilkins Peak, Douglas Peak (WiGig+ WiFi + BT) replacing Stone Peak and Maple Peak and the Pine Peak plus WWAN LTE chips (XMM 726x) replacing the WWAN XMM7160) for wireless connectivity.  Intel is also introducing the latest Alpine Ridge thunderbolt controller with Skylake pushing speeds of 40Gb/s, double that of last generation. For LAN, Intel will introduce Jacksonville to replace Clarksville. Samples of the Skylake-S CPUs have already been demonstrated by Intel at IDF14 this year and just recently, a Skylake-S ES  was pictured with 2.4 GHz base and 2.9 GHz boost clock (TDP 95W). This shows that Skylake-S will be on schedule.

Source :

http://wccftech.com/intels-6th-generation-skylake-processors-scheduled-2h-2015-5th-generation-broadwell-spring-15-updates-2015-2016-mobilit

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6770K, gotta love that shit.

[Antistatic12]

So does this mean Z97 is dead now. If they are going to a new architecture or did I read that wrong?
 

 

2015 would be a major update in regards to processor architecture

First time I have heard of Braswell. I really need to keep up with these as I only look for enthusiasts news these days and not mainstream stuff.

[vern021]

WCCF....

Really hope this one is reliable.

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[Sidiox]

I really regret buying my i7 4790 based rig 1 month ago, I should have done a socket 1151 based build

[That Norwegian Guy]

20 PCIe lanes on Skylake top chipset? Well that kills it. Guess I'm waiting even longer before I'll consider an upgrade from Ivy Bridge. Not that I have any reason to upgrade, nor will I in 3+ years. But 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes will be the minimum requirement for any consumer platform to hook me in.