Today, Intel has taken the wraps off Skylake, the sixth-generation 14nm Core architecture that follows on from Broadwell. Only two desktop chips are being released today: the high-end Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K. The "full" Skylake unveil, including a detailed breakdown of architectural changes and the full SKU line-up (including the all-important laptop parts), will occur at IDF on August 18.
Skylake is technically two full jumps ahead of Haswell, which was released in 2013. For the last decade, Intel has released new processors on a yearly basis, in accordance with its Tick-Tock cadence: one year (the tick) sees a process shrink to smaller transistors and better efficiency, the next year (tock) ushers in a brand new microarchitecture. Intel successfully stuck to the Tick-Tock model until Broadwell, where the shrink from 22nm to 14nm was heavily delayed.
The Broadwell desktop chips never saw the light of day in 2014, and the firm only just managed to officially stick to its plans by releasing some low-power 14nm Broadwell Core M processors at the tail end of the year. Meanwhile, on the desktop, Intel instead released a refresh of its existing 22nm Haswell processor line—the Devil's Canyon Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K—which offered nothing more than higher clock speeds over the earlier Haswell models.
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