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Intel pledges Skylake ramp in 2015: Intel to begin manufacturing its Skylake processors in 2015

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2604900/intels-skylake-chips-set-for-pcs-and-tablets-next-year.html

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/390715/intel-shows-off-skylake-its-next-14nm-chip

http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/09/yes-intel-does-have-a-new-architecture-for-pcs-meet-skylake/

Intel showed off the first PC containing a next-generation chip based on the upcoming Skylake architecture, set to be in PCs and tablets in the second half of next year.

A desktop PC with the chip was shown Tuesday running 4K video during an on-stage demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The manufacturer of the PC was not named by company officials.

“You should expect a significant increase in performance, battery life and power efficiency,” said Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s PC Client Group, during the demonstration.
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Nice to see intel showing off skylake in desktop pcs.

It is intels real next gen cpu and will be perhaps a good upgrade end of next year to early 2016, pci express 4.0 and DDR4 sound good also, by then hopefully DDR4 prices and speeds are better and with DDR4 hopefully enough bandwidth to do everything !
 
With Intel chips it's the architecture rather then the due shrinks that offers up the most hope for enthusiasts in terms improved performance so I would be amazed if Broadwell offers up anything worth upgrading for. Fingers crossed for Skylake in 2016.
 
Dave2150 said:
In my opinion, it's worth it to spend a premium on brand new technology.

When I bought my I7 920, motherboard and memory back in 2008 - I paid a premium for it, though it's still serving me well (for my needs) to this very day.
Since then all I changed was upgrading my graphics card last year and doubling the memory.

Here's what I paid at the time:

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I'd be more than happy to spend a premium on a true upgrade, as in a 6/8 core I7, decent overclocking motherboard, ddr4, in the hopes that it will last me as many years as my current cpu/motherboard/memory have.
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Stick a Xeon X5650 in it ;p
 
Skylake. Broadwell is just a shrink (of Haswell), Braswell is Broadwell SoCs.

Skylake will come 2H 2015 - 1H 2016.

BTW they are saying the chipset will only be PCIe 3.0, is this normal to have a different gen to the CPU lanes?
 
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They hinted at 6% faster ;)

I got a feeling though it maybe 3% or 5fps faster.

I dunno what it is but it feels like tech regardless of tick or tock has maxed out lately with intel,amd,nvidia they all seem to be heading towards energy and efficiency and making manufacturing process easier and more important cheaper for them to make but thats all they are doing lately !
 
I'm on a 2700K and having a bit of an upgrade itch, would this be a good thing to move onto? 1st time i've heard of 'Skylake', guessing they'll all be 8 core CPU's?
 
MrMarvelous said:
I'm on a 2700K and having a bit of an upgrade itch, would this be a good thing to move onto? 1st time i've heard of 'Skylake', guessing they'll all be 8 core CPU's?
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Afraid not :) just the usual quad variants. I think if you would like more cores then x99 is the platform intel will put there efforts into. Though an i7 skylake CPU will be more than enough for most.
 
Interesting tech with unidimm but It would only make sense if it was compatible with current and existing ddr3/4 ram if its a new design if feels a little pointless?

You can get a 4gig DDR4 stick @ 37 quid and a 4gig DDR3 stick for £32.

Or 16gig DDR3 kits for £120 vs 16gig DDR4 kits for £160.

If skylake does even appear fall 2015 or in a years time or early 2016 ddr4 prices may end up cheaper then ddr3.
 
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