[WCCF] Intel Skylake 2015 Platform Details Revealed

[mikk]

Last I read, Skylake was supposed to have LP-DDR3 (as appears to be the case above) and DDR4 memory support.

LP for ULV and DDR3L beside DDR4 for Skylake-H.

 

[Ajay]

Thanks for the clarification mikk!

 

[seitur]

Any news about when first desktop or normal voltage laptop Skylake parts will actually hit shelves?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Desktop is around summertime.

 

[witeken]

Desktop is around summertime.

Haven't seen this one?

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-s-delayed-september-ctober-2015/

Intel Skylake-S processors were slated for arrival in June/July by all the leaks preceding this one, but now we have confirmation from various sources that Intel has shifted the processors launch to September/October 2015. That means that Skylake is approximately a year away.

 

[mikk]

Haven't seen this one?

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-s-delayed-september-ctober-2015/

Digitimes has also published this information.

Digitimes wasn't talking about desktop. wccftech is a really shitty page.

 

[KingstonU]

So not all versions of Skylake will support DDR4? Will the version released in late summer/early fall support it?

 

[Dufus]

I was lead to believe Skylake would support both DDR3 and DDR4 similar to how Core2 Penryn supported both DDR2 and DDR3 with the board socket determining which you could use. Has this been shown not to be so now?

 

[tential]

I was lead to believe Skylake would support both DDR3 and DDR4 similar to how Core2 Penryn supported both DDR2 and DDR3 with the board socket determining which you could use. Has this been shown not to be so now?

Logically speaking, I'd think it would support both.

 

[mikk]

So not all versions of Skylake will support DDR4? Will the version released in late summer/early fall support it?

Skylake-S should be the first. It supports DDR3L and DDR4. It's unclear what it means to standard voltage 1.5V DDR3.

 

[ShintaiDK]

1.2V DDR4 and 1.35V DDR3 is what people should expect. Then they dont get badly surprised when it releases.

 

[jpiniero]

Well it sounds like that even if you use DDR3L you would need to use a new/different form factor, so the memory you have now won't work. We'll have to see what the price difference between the two is when Skylake gets released.

 

[mikk]

What do you mean with different form factor? Mainboard is the difference unless hybrid DDR3/DDR4 boards are possible to do (economical probably worthless)

 

[jpiniero]

What do you mean with different form factor? Mainboard is the difference unless hybrid DDR3/DDR4 boards are possible to do (economical probably worthless)

Wikipedia says they are using UniDIMM, so you could use UniDIMM DDR3L or DDR4 on Skylake?

 

[Dufus]

Same number of pins but location slot is in a different place for 3/4 IIRC

 

[Eug]

If Skylake K is expected to arrive in 2015 H2, what might one expect the release date of Skylake U to be?

I think Broadwell may bring a new form factor to the MacBook line, but I tend to wait a generation anyway because Apple almost always cripples its first release of a new form factor in some way. Plus, I'd like to see true integrated HEVC H.265 support in my MacBook.

Q4 2015 would be perfect, but H1 2016 would be OK too, as my current Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro still works fine.

 

[witeken]

Skylake-U ~November.

 

[Eug]

Thanks.

Will all Skylake SKUs get the updated Thunderbolt 3?

If so, that'd be another reason to wait for Skylake, although less important for most people than hardware HEVC H.265 decode.

 

[mikk]

Skylake-U ~November.

Source? I don't think we will see SKL-U this year.

 

[chucky2]

If Skylake is truly hitting towards end of next year, what even is the point of releasing Broadwell?

 

[Eug]

If Skylake is truly hitting towards end of next year, what even is the point of releasing Broadwell?

Skylake is hitting towards the end of this year, not next year.

Broadwell is still an improvement over Haswell, and Broadwell is here now, not a year from now.

 

[chucky2]

Yeah sorry I worded that wrong...I'm still stuck in 2014...

 

[chucky2]

Still though, all that trouble for Broadwell to just then release Skylake a long few months later? Seems sorta pointless...

 

[ShintaiDK]

Still though, all that trouble for Broadwell to just then release Skylake a long few months later? Seems sorta pointless...

There is almost a year in between on the mobile front.

 

[chucky2]

I guess, always pushing forward. Just on the desktop front seems pointless: What does Haswell/Haswell Refresh not handle that Broadwell brings to table? Doesn't seem like those adopting Broadwell get much over what H/HR brings and then boom Skylake comes out and EOL them.