"Broadwell is Coming" article @ ars

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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014...intels-low-power-core-m-and-its-14nm-process/

It sounds like the manufacturing problems which led to delays are somewhat worked out now:

There's good and bad news on this front. The good news is that Intel has 14nm production in what it deems a "healthy range," and the "lead product" for 14nm is in volume production and shipping to PC OEMs now—that would be the Core M, which we'll discuss in more detail later. "Further improvements" to the process are still being made, and, at some point in 2015, Intel thinks yields will improve to roughly the level that the 22nm process is at right now.
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The article has a lot of good information about Intel's 14nm process.
 
lets see if Intel can deliver at least 10% increase in perf this time for desktop users.
 
TroyX said:
lets see if Intel can deliver at least 10% increase in perf this time for desktop users.
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Remains to be seen. There's a reason I'm still running a Westmere Xeon. Sandy, Ivy and Haswell have been such small step ups there hasn't been a compelling enough bang for my buck. At this point its Skylake or bust for me and quite a few others I know
 
IMO, we're at the point now where only the extreme minority need more CPU than what's available. I hate to be the one to say it, but improving efficiency and iGPU in the grand scheme of things make the most sense.

If we had a current i7 and something twice a good as iris PRO, we'd have one hell of a RIG that's the size of Gigabytes BRIX.

That won't matter to the "hardcore" but it will appeal to a lot of people. It's the way things seem to be going anyway. I'll actually be sad to see this happen as I enjoy building PC's.
 
with DX12 slicing a large amount of CPU overhead for gaming I see no reason to upgrade to these new CPU's unless Intel stops being the big douche by charging thousands for 6-8 core CPUs.
 
6-core CPUs will be standard on the X99 platform. Probably around $350+. Broadwell is a mobile focused platform. Great battery life, terrific power management, very small form factor.

X99 is for people who don't have batteries.
 
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