Another comment of Brian Krzanich on Broadwell's delay and Skylake. The answer is quite vague, unfortunately.
Hans Mosesmann - Raymond James
Thanks. Congratulations on the quarter. Brian, just going back to the 14-nanometer Broadwell, the availability to OEMs in the first half of 2015 seems to be about a year late. I understand that you made comments about Core M in April and thats on track, but whats driving the delay for the broader portfolio of Broadwell products? And the follow-up is what does that do if anything to the cadence without Tick-Tock? Thanks.
Brian M. Krzanich - CEO
Yes, I wouldnt have said were a year late. Id tell you were six months on. We targeted Broadwell and the Core M because we really feel like its a product that highlights the real power of 14 nanometers and Broadwell, right. Its the one thats going to really target the fanless thin and light highly mobile systems which is really going to differentiate I think in my mind 14-nanometer from prior technologies. But it will be the technology that brought the fanless PC to your laptop. Every one of these process nodes that we do takes if you take a look at it going all the way out through the mobile products, the desktop products, the server products, the Atom products, its always a year and a half of product launch to be honest with you, every one of these. By the time you get to the E7 version and look were still launching the Haswell server products this quarter and thats a technology thats more than two years old. That part in the boarder availability is more skews out into next year. Six months yes, its not a year. And youll see a series a products through next year. Its always a shift between our customers and OEM partners, availability and readiness to do a new skew and our readiness of the product, theyll move as we move through the year next year. I think whats key to me is that the process is healthy. Weve got the product in a yield capability to be able to launch, we have a set of criteria that we use on every technology, so to be shipping to customers its met that quality requirement, those yield requirements and thats were shipping to customers today and youre going to have product on shelf.
Hans Mosesmann - Raymond James
Okay. And just a follow-up, does that delay SkyLink by six months?
Brian M. Krzanich - CEO
Were still looking at the actual launch date. Weve set it in 2015 so its a pretty broad window there. Were trying to pin down and I think we go through the second half of this year, well pin down exactly when SkyLink will come to market. Again its going to be as we launch these other Broadwell products (indiscernible) consumers, everybody, when are they ready for SkyLink. That will drive it as much as anything on the process readiness and the product readiness.
So Skylake is definitely 2015. Broadwell is 6 months too late. I'm not sure why because at the investor meeting they said 3 months. Quite a long time anyway, and I wonder how they're going to deal with this since they didn't delay 10nm because of this.
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