Rumor: Intel puts the pedal to the metal on its HEDT refresh
The notorious rumor mongers at Digitimes report that Intel is planning to move several upcoming releases foward. The first rumor concerns the release date of the rumored Basin Falls high-end desktop (HEDT) platform, the accompanying Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs, the X299 chipset, and the rumored LGA 2066 socket. According to "Taiwan-based PC vendors," Basin Falls' premiere is moving from the end of July to a release date during the Computex trade show at the end of May. This news comes just days after rumors that the same launch was being moved from late July to late June.
For those who don't follow the minutiae of Intel's ever-shifting codename structure, Skylake-X is expected to be the Skylake incarnation of Intel's long-running HEDT series of chips, which have traditionally born the '-E' suffix. Skylake-X CPUs are rumored ...