Intel slides detail Skylake microarchitecture, energy efficiency features
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IDF - Intel is presenting the details of the Skylake microarchitecture at IDF today. There's no live stream of the presentation, but a PDF of the slide deck illustrating the new chip's innards has leaked been made available. The company has also released another, more detailed slide deck with information about the chip's power management features and efficiency, among other things. Go get copies while you can: we can't guarantee how long these will be publicly accessible.
Scott is at IDF, 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. ...