Skylake silicon and test boards spotted

[pxc]

https://www.zauba.com/import-skylake-hs-code.html

(FOC) P1-PRE-PRQ/MICROPROCESSOR - W/ENCRYPTION SKYLAKE Y A1 BGA ULX

Not exactly news since that CPU shipped 2 months ago, but there are other more recent items listed.

What does seem to be news is that Skylake silicon is also only a Y model, with the higher power models on 14nm still MIA.

 

[wirk]

10 nm tech is on the horizon but will take a couple of years to get fab running:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/09/24/intel-fab-28/1

 

[wabbitseason]

If Skylake doesn't use solder between IHS and CPU, AND offer a reasonably priced 6-core "K" offering, they can shove it as well.

 

[Trimlock]

Really excited for skylake, my htpc will be getting this.

 

[aphexcoil]

10 nm tech is on the horizon but will take a couple of years to get fab running:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/09/24/intel-fab-28/1

It better be production ready by 2016.

 

[Mr. Bluntman]

If Skylake doesn't use solder between IHS and CPU, AND offer a reasonably priced 6-core "K" offering, they can shove it as well.

Sums my thoughts pretty accurately about the hexacore offering

 

[drescherjm]

If Skylake doesn't use solder between IHS and CPU, AND offer a reasonably priced 6-core "K" offering, they can shove it as well.

To me its highly likely that neither will happen on the mainstream.

Although I believe the 5820K is already quite reasonably priced.

 

[defaultluser]

To me its highly likely that neither will happen on the mainstream.

Although I believe the 5820K is already quite reasonably priced.

Yup, $300 from Microcenter makes it a steal. You'll likely not see a six-core part much cheaper than that until after Skylake.

I will say that EVENTUALLY Intel will have to up the core counts on the mainstream, if only to keep up with the E platform. I mean, if 8 cores is suddenly $389, it becomes more pressing for Intel tom offer 6 cores on the mainstream

But again, don't expect anything of this until after Cannonlake.

 

[Tsumi]

If Skylake doesn't use solder between IHS and CPU, AND offer a reasonably priced 6-core "K" offering, they can shove it as well.

I don't expect the upcoming mainstream socket to offer a 6-core die. And I think you can give up on expecting solder between the IHS and CPU for any of Intel's mainstream CPUs.

 

[wabbitseason]

I don't expect the upcoming mainstream socket to offer a 6-core die. And I think you can give up on expecting solder between the IHS and CPU for any of Intel's mainstream CPUs.

Haswell-E isn't even soldered using proper fluxless solder. It uses epoxy, which is also unacceptable. There is absolutely zero technical reason to have moved away from fluxless solder on the mainstream parts, let alone the enthusiast platform. The unavoidable conclusion is that Intel is pinching pennies here and they should continue to be punished for it.