Intel's 6th Generation Skylake Processors: What You Need To Know.

August 2015 that is published next-generation Intel micro architecture Skylake Processors which two Core i5-6600K and i7-6700K chip, however, after a month, this September 2 was finally officially announced Intel processor platform Skylake all Product Information.
Skylake Processors
Skylake Processors

Skylake Processors: 

Skylake sixth-generation Intel Core processors, code-named, inherited in January 2015 CES published Broadwell with 14-nanometer process. Skylake is widely regarded as the beginning of a new generation of processors and eagerly awaited, the reason is that Intel's Tick-Tock policy (also known as the pendulum policy).
All along, the Intel Tick-Tock strategy based on published products, "Tick drops" refers to the evolution of the semiconductor manufacturing process, which means the physical, structural changes such as changes in nanometer manufacturing process, shrinking the size of transistors, such as the first Five Core processor Broad well That characterization of the process from 22 nm Haswell 2013 year, converted to a 14-nano meter manufacturing process; and "Tock A" means to do updates on the basis of Tick in processor performance under constant, It made product Skylake Tock Strategy as reduce die size area, reducing energy consumption and improve the core micro-architecture design.

Tick-Tock
Roni Friedman, Intel vice president and general manager, said the new energy-saving technologies like Speed ​​Shift certainly may, based on 14-nanometer process, by the arrival of 14-nanometer manufacturing process power again lower than in the past, which makes Intel on the design and algorithm, Further power savings to make the system more sensitive. And why the generation 14-nanometer processors did not use these technologies to Skylake before doing the update, because the Tick-Tock strategy.


Intel micro architecture

US well-known technology website The Verge  said Speed ​​Shift technology Skylake microarchitecture coolest new feature, Speed ​​Shift makes under a low-power computer has a faster reaction speed, reaction speed from the original 30 ms, becomes 1 millisecond, However, Intel did not disclose the difference compared with the previous generation Core processor Broad well energy.

Skylake consumer product line is still divided into ultra-low power Y series, U series of low high consumption, high-performance H series and S-series for desktop.


But we can see this Skylake product lines more finely divided, such as in Core m named Y-series processors, in this first subdivided m3, m5, m7 three levels, as laptop product line Core i Series Digital more Big rating higher, Core m mainly used in flat, thin laptop and other fanless devices, as well as Intel recently released computer rods will use this series chips, the Intel m5, m7 additionally introduced originally in i5, i7 series only version of vPro technology, the future in tablet and other devices can have high display performance, achieve 4K quality applications. Originally applied Xeon server product line series, also launched a corresponding notebook platform products, as most high-end notebook platform products, can be used in a workstation notebook, it is estimated in the fourth quarter, 2016 will be introduced. And mainly used in the U Series Ultrabook for the first time with embedded DRAM (eDRAM) only applies to Intel's previous high-end quad-core CPU.



Overall, Intel said the new sixth-generation Core processors compared with the average five-year computer, performance may be 2.5 times faster, three times more battery life, graphics performance can be increased to 30 times, is also expected make new computer body thickness and weight in half.

Intel pointed out that in the coming months, will launch more than 48 models Skylake products containing Intel Iris and Iris Pro display chip, which includes operations dedicated workstation processor Intel Xeon E3-1500M series, as well as for business and enterprise Design of the sixth generation Intel vPro processors, manufacturers across the globe in the coming months will be launched various exterior devices.



(Photo and first - Source: Intel official)
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