Intel’s Skylake is officially debuting today, just months after the company launched new high-end desktop Broadwell chips. It’s been more than two years since Intel launched a new desktop architecture, and over a year since the company’s Haswell refresh, the Core i7-4790K, debuted as a high-end enthusiast chip. The new Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K are meant to replace the old CPUs, with new integrated graphics, new chipset support, and an all-new core architecture.
Complete details on that core architecture will have to wait until IDF August 18th, minus what we can glean from early chip tests. Intel isn’t sharing much in-depth detail on the chips today. For now, we’ll cover some initial results and discuss the platform and its positioning within Intel’s lineup.