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Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor
itwbennett writes: In June of this year, Intel announced a processor branded as Broadwell-C. Now, the company has confirmed that the part was cancelled but would not give an official reason. Why did Intel kill the Broadwell-C? ITworld's Andy Patrizio speculates that it's a 'combination of increased cost, lower yield and potential product cannibalization' — cannibalization of the company's newly-launched Skylake processor, which the Broadwell-C outperformed.
Is this news? We've known for months that Broadwell's slow ramp meant it would get eclipsed by SkyLake very quickly in some segments.
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Maybe the chip was backdoored and they didn't want it to go public?
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Broadwell lacks ddr4 support. That is as good a reason as any to let the line die. DDR4 is out now and no one wants their flagship model to be relying on last years tech.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
This series will be looked at by history as the hiccup generation. Everyone makes mistakes, especially Intel.
So the fastest Skylake is not as fast as the fastest Broadwell which was not even as fast as the fastest Haswell.....
Damn it Intel, get the high-end Skylakes out.
To have a fairly powerful OpenCL GPU and tons of eDRAM on chip, it could have been a pretty powerful parallel computing platform to pair with GPGPU.
i7 series parts top out at $1000, Xeon E5-4xxx series parts start at $1000
Why would you want your cheap consumer grade hardware cannibalizing your bread and butter business chips? The large cloud providers have already shifted to "consumer" hard drives to save money, knowing that their failure rates will be more than compensated for by lower unit costs.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
You killed Broadwell. You bastards!
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Benchmarks of Skylake i7-6700K vs Broadwell i7-5775C show the Skylake CPU to be faster. Cheaper too. The Broadwell chip can perform better on some OpenCL tasks due to the Iris Pro integrated GPU, but non-GPU tasks handled by integer and floating point units, cryptography and media extensions are always faster on the Skylake CPU. The "which the Broadwell-C outperformed" part is stupid sour grapes from an unhappy little malcontent.
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How does this relate to memory exploits on the WinTEL platform?
At one time the open software community was proud of porting their software to every hardware platform. Now people don't even know or care that there are alternatives to x86/x64 architecture. Nor do they know about the days when hardware shipped crippled, unless you paid the upgrade cost to remove a jumper. I fear that those days are returning.
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Doesn't matter how fast the processor is, I'll still be waiting, waiting, waiting.
Iris Pro was first introduced with Haswell with much fanfare. There were both as desktop and laptop versions. But in reality the products barely existed. There is only a handfull of design wins, which sold in very small quantities.
Now, we have a product based on Broadwell Iris Pro that's cancelled. At this point it's looking like Intel were having major yield problems with the production of the on chip eDRAM.
What's more, the chip is called Broadwell-K not Broadwell-C. Even though model numbers end in C.
A better question is why we have plateaued on performance so badly. 7700k vs 4770k is a wash at best after 2 years for power and performance (way less than a Moore's law cycle would lead you to expect). Consumer grade processors are stuck at 4 cores, and now we get to pay for a bunch of low end GPU die area that will never get used. I don't get it.
Give me a 6 core with no GPU over a 4 core with a low end GPU any day.
Intel responded to Anandtech's inquiry into the killing of the chip line and denies that it is dead and in fact is wondering where the bad information has come from:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9639/the-death-of-intels-broadwell-is-greatly-exaggerated-socketed-broadwell-continues
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
Lies.
DDR4 is out now
I thought DDR4 came out in 2000, and the PlayStation family was up to GDDR5.
Yet another post from timothy that won't get fixed
According to the source the original article has been corrected. The Skylace-C was killed not the broadwell-c.
From: TFA: CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of the story misidentified the product that has been retired. It is the Skylake-C and not the Broadwell-C that has been discontinued.
Not like AMD is releasing a faster processor. They can cool their jets and profit anyway.
The reason is changing product uses. The reason there has been little progress in performance is that chips today are being optimized for power rather than performance. The reason is most people buy laptops now, which have a battery, which means power conservation is a bigger priority than ever increasing performance to which only a very small subset of users actually ever utilize.
Back in the day, you just poured more power into the chip, and so long as you could cool it enough from melting you didn't really care how much power it sucked down as you were typically plugged into a wall outlet.
Now with most consumers using laptops it just isn't a priority anymore. Considering for most performance hungry users the end use was computer games, and on a laptop you likely aren't going to have a discrete GPU except at the very upper end, there is little use for CPU performance either.
I don't think it is because they *can't* achieve greater performance, it's just that it isn't the market they are building these things for. And before you start talking about various product lines, these things are all designed at the same time, and the overarching goal is reduced power consumption while keeping a reasonable amount of performance. As a desktop user it's depressing. The same can be said for all the emphasis on CPU/GPU integration and its marginal gains, all driven by the ubiquitous laptop.
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