Rumor: Intel to release Skylake processors for laptops in October

Intel is expected to release eighteen next-generation Skylake-generation laptop processors in the fourth quarter of this year, starting in October. That is a few months after the first desktop chips, which should already appear in August.

The news of the release of the Skylake mobile processors in October comes from Digitimes, which has a hit and miss history in the veracity of rumors, but often brings correct information from sources within Taiwanese hardware manufacturers.

According to the site, laptop makers are phasing out their stocks of current machines with Intel Broadwell chips, which would be slow due to falling demand in Europe and disappointing sales in China. Earlier rumors from the Chinese site Benchlife put the release of Skylake-U and -H as late as September, but that site also claimed that the first desktop chips would probably be announced during Intel’s IDF in mid-August, while it is now widely believed that this will already be during the Gamescom in Cologne will happen.

Skylake is likely to bring efficiency and GPU performance improvements to processors with a modified architecture. The first Skylake processors will be the Core i5 6600K and i7 6700K for the desktop. The Broadwell and Skylake generations follow each other in quick succession in laptops; in June, Intel announced the first Broadwell mobile quad-core.