It appears that recent rumors that Intel might delay its Skylake architecture are pretty much true, at least when it comes to Skylake-S desktop and Skylake-U mobile chips, which will, according to the latest report, launch on 15th of August at Intel's annual Intel Developer Forum.


According to the newest report coming from VR-Zone.com, Intel will launch both its desktop Skylake-S and mobile Skylake-U during Intel Developer Forum which will start on August 15th. The availability of both series is expected in a few month after the launch of Broadwell chips, which suffered a heavy delay.

Intel's Skylake-S desktop lineup will include both locked and unlocked SKUs and feature three different TDP groups, 95W, 65W and 35W chips. The unlocked, top end SKUs, or the K-series, will have a 95W TDP, quad-core design and come with Intel GT2 graphics. The lineup will also include 65W and 35W SKUs based on quad-core design with GT2 graphics as well as couple of dual-core SKUs with same graphics part.

Intel's Skylake architecture will come with Intel's new LGA1151 socket motherboards based on the new 100-series Sunrise Point chipset (Z170/H170) and will include features like more PCIe lanes and more USB ports. The flagship Z170 chipset motherboards, which will support the new K-Series unlocked Skylake desktop CPUs will feature up to 20 PCI-Express 3.0 lanes, six SATA 6Gbps ports, 10 USB 3.0 ports, up to 3 SATA Express ports and up to three Intel RST PCIe storage ports with two SATA Express ports or M.2 SSD ports.

We are certainly looking forward to Intel's Skylake lineup and hopefully the new launch date will not be pushed further back.



Source: Wccftech.com.