Intel roadmap names Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X as successors to Broadwell-E

Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X will be released in the second quarter of 2017 as a successor to Broadwell-E, which was released this week. At least that is what an Intel roadmap has published online. The X line appears to be partly the new name for Intel’s HEDT or High-End Desktop family.

The roadmap has appeared on Taiwanese site Benchlife, which regularly publishes Intel roadmaps that prove to be correct. It is striking that both Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X succeed Broadwell-E in the third quarter. The site suggests that Skylake-X, like Broadwell-E, will consist of processors with 10, 8 and 6 cores and will have TDPs of 140W. Kaby Lake-X should then serve the mainstream desktop market with quad-cores with unlocked multiplier, and with TDPs of 95W.

Benchlife also publishes a slide from Skylake-W. This is the workstation platform codenamed Basin Falls. The Skylake-W processors support socket R, lga 2011, and get a TDP of 140W. They can handle four-channel DDR4 2667MHz memory and the processors are combined with the Kaby Lake PC for, among other things, support for up to twenty PCI-e 3.0 lanes.

Kaby Lake is the successor to Skylake and the third 14nm generation of processors. Intel has abandoned the tick-tock cadence and now uses the term “process-architecture-optimization” for the cycles of successive processor generations.