Wednesday, March 4th 2015
Intel to Launch Socketed "Broadwell" Processors in mid-2015
Along the sidelines of GDC 2015, Intel offered a few details on how the year could look for its desktop processor lineup. The company is preparing to launch socketed Core "Broadwell" processors in mid-2015 (late Q2 or early Q3), likely in the sidelines of Computex 2015. Broadwell is an optical shrink of "Haswell" to the new 14-nanometer silicon fab process, with a minor feature-set update, much in the same way as "Ivy Bridge" was an optical shrink of "Sandy Bridge" to the 22 nm process.
The socketed Core "Broadwell" chips could come in the LGA1150 package, running on existing 8-series and 9-series chipset motherboards, with BIOS updates. The optical shrink seems to be working wonders for the silicon. Quad-core chips based on "Broadwell" could come with TDP rated as low as 65W (and we're not talking about the energy-efficient "S" or "T" brand extensions here). Some dual-core variants in the series may even be based on the smaller Core M "Broadwell" silicon, which physically features just 2 cores (and isn't a bigger quad-core silicon with two cores disabled in what's a colossal waste of rare-earth metals on a production scale). Some of those dual-core parts could come with TDP rated as low as 28W.
Source:
TechReport
The socketed Core "Broadwell" chips could come in the LGA1150 package, running on existing 8-series and 9-series chipset motherboards, with BIOS updates. The optical shrink seems to be working wonders for the silicon. Quad-core chips based on "Broadwell" could come with TDP rated as low as 65W (and we're not talking about the energy-efficient "S" or "T" brand extensions here). Some dual-core variants in the series may even be based on the smaller Core M "Broadwell" silicon, which physically features just 2 cores (and isn't a bigger quad-core silicon with two cores disabled in what's a colossal waste of rare-earth metals on a production scale). Some of those dual-core parts could come with TDP rated as low as 28W.
44 Comments on Intel to Launch Socketed "Broadwell" Processors in mid-2015
Will wait for Skylake in 2016 :rockout:
I'll skip Broadwell Enthusiast as well methinks (2016 date). No idea if Skylake is even roadmapped to have an enthusiast variant. Either way, I'll be holding onto this 3930K for another year or so. 3 1/2 years and still punching hard (and been running at 4.4GHz all that time).
www.techpowerup.com/201936/intel-desktop-cpu-roadmap-updated.html
I really hope Skylake breaks that trend so I can finally upgrade. Such a shame AMD isn't a performance player any more to give Intel some incentive to give us faster processors.
My 920 likely isn't all that much slower than these new Broadwell chips but Broadwell is doing it at half to quarter the power. There's no reason why Intel couldn't put out a processor for ~$300 with a 120w TDP and 8-16 cores. But they don't, because they'd rather charge $1000-4000 for that chip to server customers.
Meanwhile, AMD puts out 160w chips that barely compete with my ye-old 920. This is what happens when there is no competition.
But, yes, I'll definitely agree with your sentiment that in the mainstream consumer line Intel has been focused on lowering power consumption more than raising performance.
And to be honest, I couldn't care less about Iris Pro graphics, waste of silicon in the desktop space in my opinion.
P.S. Is it just me or is anyone else confused by the weird tock-tick schema? It should be the other way around. It's just words, yea, but completely confusing (assuming everyone has "tick tock" burnt in his brains).
It's been looking like clocks are getting lower with the die shrinks..
1150: 88w, 4 cores, IGP