Intel have reportedly moved up the launch of Skylake-X and Coffee Lake

Both of these new CPU architectures will be based on Intel’s latest 14nm processing node, with Intel planning to accelerate the development and production capability of their upcoming 2nd generation 10nm manufacturing process. 

  

 

These new reports line up with previous rumours that Intel was moving up the launch of their Skylake-X launch, though these rumours made no mention of Intel’s Coffee Lake series of CPUs.

Intel’s Skylake-X series of CPUs will come with between six and ten CPU cores, with support for quad-channel DDR4 2667MHz memory out of the box, which is an improvement over Broadwell-E’s support of quad-channel 2400MHz memory.  Hopefully, this will allow Skylake-X to support higher memory speeds though overclocking, allowing speeds of 3200MHz and over to easily be supported. 

Kaby-Lake X will be coming in quad-core models, with TDPs of 112W and no iGPU components, this CPU will be limited to dual-channel memory support and up to 16x PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU.  

  

  

At this time the exact clock speeds of Intel’s upcoming X299 CPUs are unknown, though they are likely to be higher than Intel’s current Broadwell-E offerings. 

The largest changes that Skylake-X will offer is an increase in motherboard/platform features, supporting more PCIe lanes through the chipset and their DMI interface, like Intel’s current Z170 and Z270 motherboard offerings. 

  

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Both of these new CPU architectures will be based on Intel’s latest 14nm processing node, with Intel planning to accelerate the development and production capability of their upcoming 2nd generation 10nm manufacturing process. 

  

 

These new reports line up with previous rumours that Intel was moving up the launch of their Skylake-X launch, though these rumours made no mention of Intel’s Coffee Lake series of CPUs.

Intel’s Skylake-X series of CPUs will come with between six and ten CPU cores, with support for quad-channel DDR4 2667MHz memory out of the box, which is an improvement over Broadwell-E’s support of quad-channel 2400MHz memory.  Hopefully, this will allow Skylake-X to support higher memory speeds though overclocking, allowing speeds of 3200MHz and over to easily be supported. 

Kaby-Lake X will be coming in quad-core models, with TDPs of 112W and no iGPU components, this CPU will be limited to dual-channel memory support and up to 16x PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU.  

  

  

At this time the exact clock speeds of Intel’s upcoming X299 CPUs are unknown, though they are likely to be higher than Intel’s current Broadwell-E offerings. 

The largest changes that Skylake-X will offer is an increase in motherboard/platform features, supporting more PCIe lanes through the chipset and their DMI interface, like Intel’s current Z170 and Z270 motherboard offerings. 

  

You can join the discussion on Intel’s accelerating the launch of their next-generation CPUs on the OC3D Forums.