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When will the next Skylakes be out?

JayFiveAliveJayFiveAlive Member UncommonPosts: 601
in Hardware
The 6600 and 6700 are out and are alright, but when will the next Skylake processors be out? :open_mouth: 

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  • MikeBMikeB Community ManagerRarePosts: 6,555
    Answer ✓
    I don't know about Skylake, but Kaby Lake will be coming out in the second half of this year.
  • JayFiveAliveJayFiveAlive UncommonPosts: 601
    Answer ✓
    Sweet - I will keep my eye out for them. Didn't realize they were already past Skylake!

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  • MikeBMikeB Community ManagerAdministrator RarePosts: 6,555
    Kaby Lake is more of a refresh of Skylake than anything else. It's an in-between since Cannonlake got delayed into 2017.
  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383
    Broadwell-E will be the next big release (which will supplant the Haswell-E lineup that released about a year and a half ago). Those are the more enthusiast-aligned Socket 2011, 6+ core chips. Haswell-E went to 8 cores, there's a rumor that Broadwell-E will go to 10. 

    Kaby Lake is a stop-gap because Cannondale (or rather, it's 10nm process) is expected to be late. I expect Kaby Lake to be for Skylake as Devil's Canyon was to Haswell -- not so much an introduction of anything new, just some refinements on the existing platform (such as fixing the "Complex Workload" crash, stiffening up the PCB so it doesn't bend under heatsink pressure, etc.)

    Cannondale will be the next "Tick" - it also shouldn't be a radical departure from Skylake, but more or less the same architecture on the next process node. It may not mean much for Desktops - Broadwell was the Tick to Haswell's Tock, and it didn't do much at all for desktops.
  • JayFiveAliveJayFiveAlive Member UncommonPosts: 601
    Ugh, I wanted to upgrade last year, maybe I will be waiting another year for Cannonlake then. My 2500K is still going strong from 2011, but I want something new soon haha.
  • RzepRzep Member UncommonPosts: 767
    JayFiveAlive said:
    Ugh, I wanted to upgrade last year, maybe I will be waiting another year for Cannonlake then. My 2500K is still going strong from 2011, but I want something new soon haha.
    Just like me. I want to put together a whole new PC, but the new stuff so far has been very lack luster. I really hope the CPUs and GPU in 2016 are really something special. Like run everything on max in 2560x1440 60+fps  and do 30fps in 4k sort of special. 
  • MikeBMikeB Community ManagerAdministrator RarePosts: 6,555
    Sorry to hijack, but is the thread asking you guys if each reply was the answer to your question? Getting a bug over here and trying to find out if it's affecting you all as well.
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531
    If you want a new computer, I don't see any sense waiting on new CPUs.  The last desktop CPUs Intel offered that were worth waiting for was Sandy Bridge, and that was five years ago.  AMD Zen will shake things up, but there are conflicting reports as to whether it's expected to be out this year.  And even Zen may not be any better than the Sky Lake CPUs you can get from Intel now.
  • JayFiveAliveJayFiveAlive Member UncommonPosts: 601
    edited January 2016
    Maybe Sandy Bridge will be the last CPU of it's kind? My theory is Intel made it so good they regret it and will stick to smaller jumps now... My problem is I don't neeeed a new machine haha. I just want one, but I kind of want that Unicorn value of SB :(

    So Broadwell-E will be considered better than the Kaby Lake CPUs?

    MikeB - yes, I marked your answer as Yes, but everyone's replies (except mine) are still asking: Did this answer the question? Yes - No
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531
    JayFiveAlive said:

    So Broadwell-E will be considered better than the Kaby Lake CPUs?
    Do you want more, slower cores at a higher price tag or fewer, faster cores at a lower price tag?
  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383
    edited January 2016
    MikeB said:
    Sorry to hijack, but is the thread asking you guys if each reply was the answer to your question? Getting a bug over here and trying to find out if it's affecting you all as well.
    I didn't see anything like that - may just apply to the OP and mods
  • JayFiveAliveJayFiveAlive Member UncommonPosts: 601
    Quizzical said:
    JayFiveAlive said:

    So Broadwell-E will be considered better than the Kaby Lake CPUs?
    Do you want more, slower cores at a higher price tag or fewer, faster cores at a lower price tag?
    At this time, for gaming anyway, probably few higher clocked cores I suppose. Not sure how long that will be the case.
  • MikeBMikeB Community ManagerAdministrator RarePosts: 6,555
    Ridelynn said:
    MikeB said:
    Sorry to hijack, but is the thread asking you guys if each reply was the answer to your question? Getting a bug over here and trying to find out if it's affecting you all as well.
    I didn't see anything like that - may just apply to the OP and mods
    Thanks guys.
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