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Intel Skylake launched at IFA 2015

by on02 September 2015


The sixth generation Core for notebooks

Intel has kicked off its press event at IFA 2015 in Berlin and  has just announced the sixth generation Core technology that know as Skylake. 

This is an official launch of the sixth generation of Core from the new Core M, to Core i3, i5 and i7, Mobile Xeon and even Pentium and Celeron based on the 14nm Skylake.

Kirk Skaugen Senior Vice President, General Manager PC Client Group at Intel Corporation told us to expect nearly 800 mobile systems with 50 different microprocessors.

It took Intel four years of active development to finish Skylake and Chipzilla sees this generation as a tremendous opportunity. Many of these chips will end up in 2in1 systems and Kirk names them as the second fastest growing segment in mobile just after phablets.

Today there are a billion PCs that are three years and older and half a billion PCs are four to five years old. Compared to a five year old PC, the sixth gen is 2.5 times faster and has ten times HD media playback battery and 30 times faster graphics performance. Intel doesn’t compare the Skylake with Haswell as there is not that much difference.

Intel showcased Lenovo's Miix 2in1 detachable system that is thin and light and supposed to be fast too. The Sixth generation Core M7 processor launching at $699 comes with Real sense camera, weighs 780 grams and is  8.9 mm thick. Skaugen showed a brand new Dell, probably a Skylake updated generation of sucessfull Dell XPS13 with edge to edge display and Skylake. 

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All in Ones will get the six generation core make over  too and the all of the rage of 360 to detachable. Core M based compute sticks are on stage in Berlin today.  NUCs, which have seen 20 percent annual grown for Intel have been updated too.

Intel has  the world’s first overlocked notebook processors for the gaming notebooks. Alienware, MSI and Gigabyte are to introduce it.

Intel also announced Xeon for mobile. This will replace the big 61 pound, 21 KG Xeon desktop system with Xeon based sixth generation core notebook all in 2.5 KG, making it a tenth the weight and faster.  

Core M will be branded with Core M3, Core M5 and Core M7 for fanless tablets or 2in1 notebooks. Intel thinks that 4K matters and the Skylake notebooks can do it better since it is H.265 capable.This is what the mobile variations of the processors look like.

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