Digitimes: Intel is planning to upgrade its Compute Stick and NUC solutions to feature Skylake processors starting October and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Computer, Asustek Computer and ASRock are expected to launch related products. Intel is also expected to launch related end products.
The Skylake lineup is a reminiscence of better times for team blue when AMD was still struggling in the CPU space and BrianKrzanich was the CEO.
Not in my PC. That trusty i5-6500 will continue humming into the uncertain future.
Side-channel leak in Skylake and Kaby Lake chips probably affects AMD CPUs, too.
with all these hacks affecting so many cpus, guess its time to back to the old pen and paper.
With all these exploits , they still dammand a higher price for CPU's , GPU's and RAM.
Its getting very expensive for the avarage joe to build a half decent PC these days.
Intel is prepping its Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X high-end desktop processors for a launch in Q3 2017, just in time for Gamescom 2017.