Meanwhile it's known, that Intel's upcoming Haswell-E "HEDT" platform, which is going to be launched in the second half of 2014, features a quad channel DDR4 memory interface, but what about the LGA115X line-up?

These days it looks like Intel is going bring a bigger update to their LGA115X platform in 2015. Before that they will be releasing Broadwell, which feature 14 nanometer structures as well as the 8th generation of integrated graphics. Regarding Skylake, which is to follow in 2015, we will see the 9th generation of Intel's HD graphics, but what much more exciting is, that 2015 could mark the year, when Intel pushes DDR4 memory to the the mass market. Apparently Skylake will come with a dual-channel DDR4 memory interface.

Next to a DDR4 memory interface we will see PCIe 4.0, which is going to double bandwidth once more, when compared to it's predecessor. These days only enterprise grade PCI Express SSD's are capable of hitting the bandwidth limit of PCI Express 3.0. Therefore it makes sense to plan the next version of the PCI Express protocol. Furthermore increased throughput per lane is also a good thing when you look at it from a "standard storage" point of view. At this point SATA Express comes into the game, which will offer between 10 and 16 Gigabit per second of throughput and thanks to PCI Express 4.0 Intel wont have to waist a lot of PCI Express lanes to achieve these transfer speeds. Apart from DDR4, PCIe 4.0 and SATA Express we will also see new AVX 3.2 instructions. Keeping in mind, that these days version 2.0 is state of the art, this is quite a leap forward.








Source: WCCFTech