Intel Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K

First test of Intel’s Skylake platform

Intel’s tick-tock strategy has become slightly less predictable recently. The idea is that, in alternating years, Intel first shrinks the lithography of its chips, boosting efficiency, then brings out a new architecture the following year with a focus on performance. The cycle historically repeated every two years. However, the move to 22nm transistors with Ivy Bridge was over three years ago, which is where desktop processors have remained since. The shrink to 14nm with Broadwell was so heavily delayed that we ended up with a Haswell refresh, called Devil’s Canyon, last year, and now Broadwell has already been superseded by Skylake, Intel’s new 14nm CPU architecture.

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