Intel: No plans for a socketed Skylake with eDRAM

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There may be some hope. A source familiar with Intel's plans told us that we may see a revival of the socketed desktop parts with eDRAM as part of next year's 14-nm Kaby Lake refresh. The same source indicated that one possible reason Intel didn't choose to produce a socketed Skylake with eDRAM could be the schedule. After all, the socketed Broadwells with eDRAM hit the market almost simultaneously with the first Skylake parts—and they are still scarce here in North America. The Broadwell desktop parts likely won't be available in healthy volumes until multiple Skylake models are, too. Qualifying a socketed CPU with eDRAM takes time, and it's possible a Skylake variant could put Intel in to the same sort of uncomfortable situation yet again. Skipping a generation and going directly to Kaby Lake might make the most sense.
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Sounds more like a maybe or maybe not. The info posted a day or two ago shows a Skylake S with eDRAM in the list of Kaby Lake models. That doesn't necessarily mean it will be a socketed model, but 35W and 65W could possibly suggest T and c LGA variants. (I know the higher end BGA models are also 65W.)
 
I do not know why anyone expected eDRAM on skylake when the high-end 6600k/6700k already did not have it? It will be great news if it's confirmed on Kaby Lake - that's only a year or so away.
 
Maybe they should take that iGPU area and fill it up with eDRAM. But doesn't it rarely improve performance anyway?
 
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