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According to the latest report, it appears that Intel's high-end desktop (HEDT) platform update, also known as the Broadwell-E, will launch in Q2 2016.
According to a latest leak coming from Benchlife.info, which earlier leaked some information regarding Broadwell-E chips, including the fact that it will bring the first 10-core CPU, the first Broadwell-E parts will launch in Q2 2016. The lineup will include the Core i7-6800 and Core i7-6900 series SKUs and include 10-core, 8-core and 6-core parts.
According to the leaked slide, the Broadwell-E chips will still retain the 140W TDP and will support the existing LGA2011v3 socket motherboards, of course with a BIOS update.
The leaked roadmap slide also includes details regarding Kaby Lake desktop CPUs, which should start replacing Skylake-S desktop CPUs in Q4 2016.
Marc Büchel says: If Intel is actually going to launch Broadwell-E sometime in the second quarter of 2016, that CPU will be six to nine months late. These days nobody is talking about this delay anymore, but it would be an interesting one to touch. Especially speculating about the reasons which could provide some more insight on what’s going on with the entire industry these days.
We’re all aware that a few months ago Intel launched their Skylake processors, which are based on 14nm transistors and the availability on the high-end parts – Core i7-6700K – is still poor. Since the Core i7-6700K is a CPU that supports Hyper-Threading, which adds a lot of complexity to a chip design, Intel is simply struggling with the yield.
Coming back to topic, the Broadwell-E is going to be based on the same 14nm nodes like Skylake and that CPU is to support 10-cores plus Hyper-Threading, which means more than twice the transistor count and therefore the complexity of this chip design is going to explode once more. Apart from that Intel’s HEDT processors are always scaled down server CPUs and with those server CPUs Intel needs to be perfectly sure, that everything is working perfect. In order to make everything work this time it seem quite likely that Intel needed quite a few months more.
As for the launch date itself I hope these CPUs will make it to market early in Q2 2016 but I expect them to be around latest for Computex 2016.
Source: via Techpowerup.com.
According to a latest leak coming from Benchlife.info, which earlier leaked some information regarding Broadwell-E chips, including the fact that it will bring the first 10-core CPU, the first Broadwell-E parts will launch in Q2 2016. The lineup will include the Core i7-6800 and Core i7-6900 series SKUs and include 10-core, 8-core and 6-core parts.
According to the leaked slide, the Broadwell-E chips will still retain the 140W TDP and will support the existing LGA2011v3 socket motherboards, of course with a BIOS update.
The leaked roadmap slide also includes details regarding Kaby Lake desktop CPUs, which should start replacing Skylake-S desktop CPUs in Q4 2016.
Our thoughts on this topic
Marc Büchel says: If Intel is actually going to launch Broadwell-E sometime in the second quarter of 2016, that CPU will be six to nine months late. These days nobody is talking about this delay anymore, but it would be an interesting one to touch. Especially speculating about the reasons which could provide some more insight on what’s going on with the entire industry these days.
We’re all aware that a few months ago Intel launched their Skylake processors, which are based on 14nm transistors and the availability on the high-end parts – Core i7-6700K – is still poor. Since the Core i7-6700K is a CPU that supports Hyper-Threading, which adds a lot of complexity to a chip design, Intel is simply struggling with the yield.
Coming back to topic, the Broadwell-E is going to be based on the same 14nm nodes like Skylake and that CPU is to support 10-cores plus Hyper-Threading, which means more than twice the transistor count and therefore the complexity of this chip design is going to explode once more. Apart from that Intel’s HEDT processors are always scaled down server CPUs and with those server CPUs Intel needs to be perfectly sure, that everything is working perfect. In order to make everything work this time it seem quite likely that Intel needed quite a few months more.
As for the launch date itself I hope these CPUs will make it to market early in Q2 2016 but I expect them to be around latest for Computex 2016.
Source: via Techpowerup.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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