Intel's Skylake-S Lineup Reportedly Leaked

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Ten Skylake desktop CPUs supposedly outed

It may only have been a few months since the first Broadwell CPUs (finally) hit the market, but Intel is already looking set to move on from the Haswell's troubled 14nm die shrink. Media reports in February suggested that the chip maker could showcase its 6th generation Skylake-S desktop chips at its IDF conference in August, a little later than previously expected. A Chinese website believes it knows which SKUs await us.
As previously rumored, the various Skylake-S SKUs supposedly outed by Chinese site Benchlife fall into three broad categories in terms of power consumption: 35W, 65W and 95W. There are 10 SKUs in all, ranging from the power-efficient T series chips to the powerful, unlocked K series CPUs.
As you can see in the table below, these are all Core i5 and Core i7 parts with support for DDR4. And as you may be aware, Intel is moving to the new LGA 1151 socket with Skylake; the socket has an extra pin compared to its predecessor, the LGA 1150.
Skylake is a "tock" in Intel's tick-tock processor release cadence. In other words, it is a whole new microarchitecture and thus a more substantial upgrade over Haswell than Broadwell, which is simply the latter's 14nm die shrink, or a "tick" in company parlance. If purportedly leaked benchmarks are to be believed, we could see a 15-percent bump in performance.

Image Credit: Benchlife
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