It has same number of PCIe lanes, so no actual change on that front...Also i notice that it will have one less x8 GPU slot available.
At last, the platform I was waiting for is announced !
DDR4 for consumers next year. That I did not expect
trying to wait for broadwell . Hopefully the lower micron process drops the power requirement
trying to wait for broadwell . Hopefully the lower micron process drops the power requirement
Well it would make business sense to me. The desktop/laptop market ain't growing, it will take some time before core feature of Haswell as AVX2 or TSX are properly leveraged by software, and sadly the competition is pretty stagnant.Just came across this:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/ne...ntel_isnt_launching_14nm_broadwell_until_2015
Might be a long wait for broadwell.
Skylake is due Q1 2015, at least from what recent leaked roadmaps indicate. Broadwell isn't coming to desktop, at least for the mainstream segment, so desktop roadmaps lacking Broadwell aren't demonstrating anything profound -- we already know this. Clueless journalists didn't get the memo, I guess.
We might see Broadwell-E in 2015, though. Hopefully Intel makes up for the excessive delay they've had with IVB-E.