Stefan Mileschin

Details of Intel's upcoming Skylake generation of CPUs and their accompanying platform controllers has been leaked on a Chinese site.

EXPreview has published details of Skylake based on apparently leaked internal presentation slides from Intel. Skylake will introduce a new architecture on the now-proven 14nm process and is expected to hit markets by the end of this year.

Desktop versions of the chips intended for installation in socketed motherboards are apparently known as Skylake-S. A new socket, LGA1151, will break compatibility with existing motherboards. A new three-digit naming scheme for chipsets is also needed, as two-digit numbers have been exhausted with the 9X series.

What is interesting in the slides is that there will be support for DDR4 RAM as well as low-power DDR3L for some form factors. This will mean that the new high-speed standard will be going mainstream and bring prices down.

There is a revamped graphics component with support for DirectX 12, OpenCL 2.0 and OpenGL 4.4 as well as accelerated encoding/decoding for the modern VP9, VP8 and HEVC video codecs.

There is no mention of embedded DRAM caches, which had been expected and are used by Intel's top-end processors with integrated Iris Pro graphics.

http://fudzilla.com/news/processors/...ght-on-skylake