Skylake microarchitecture details leak
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IDF - Intel is presenting the details of the Skylake microarchitecture at IDF today. The company isn't livestreaming the presentation, but a PDF of the slide deck illustrating the new chip's innards has leaked. Go get a copy before the powers-that-be remove it: we can't guarantee how long it'll be up.
Scott is at the presentation, and he's tweeting the highlights . Some of the juicy details so far: Skylake chips can power off their AVX2 hardware when it's not in use. The new chip's ring fabric has two times the bandwidth of Broadwell chips at the same level of power consumption. ...