According to the official roadmap, Intel will have released Broadwell-K, Skylake-S in the middle of this year. Both are 14nm process, the former for overclockers, the latter for the mainstream user, divide and rule.
But now the bad news. As Broadwell family only exists on the desktop, Broadwell-K traced to overheating problems, the original set of 65W thermal design power has been unable to do so, it will reach a high frequency of about 88W, in fact one of the new models have been set in the 95W.
It is said that the problem comes from Broadwell architecture itself, but it can not be said to be a design flaw, this situation is said not unexpected.
As for the new 14nm process is not also have a responsibility, not yet confirmed, anyway, when he had just been born 22nm provoke a lot of trouble, it is easy to cause the processor temperature is too high, and this surprisingly similar.
In fact, Intel desktop processors in high-end models have been around 90W, the suddenly reduced to 65W, could have been a big surprise, the results back.
It stands to reason about 90W is not unacceptable, especially love overclocking generally do not care about power, but this is obviously not just a problem of high power consumption, not to mention the decline in consumption means high overclocking capabilities.
Allegedly, Intel executives are currently discussing whether to completely abolish Broadwell-K.
Taking into account the root causes of the problem, I am afraid to spend time is not completely resolved, but not the economy, so the possibility of cancellation or high.
Trouble is, we have not heard the news Skylake-K. Although mainstream version have, overclocked version should not be a problem, but now it seems, if you like overclocking, must wait longer to have the new stuff up.
Oh yeah, there are plans early next year, the birth of a new fever platform Broadwell-E, scheduled to 140W or whether it will face overheating problems?