How Often Are New Generations Made?

[dann20201]

Hey Guys!

How often does Intel make a new generation of processors (Such as Skylake, Haswell, Sandybridge, etc.)?
It has been on my mind for a while, and it will give me a hand on knowing when to update my build.

Thanks!

 

[utroz]

They come out with new cpu's around 1-1.5years in a tick tock cycle. It went Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Hasewell, Broadwell, Skylake. ect.. However Intel is breaking the tick tock cycle with Kaby Lake coming in the next year or so.

 

[smorizio]

it was every 18 months. but when intel tryed to drop to 14mm for brodwell there foundry has error and low yeilds. it was so bad that skylake the replacment for haswell and brodwell was ready before brodwell cpu. that why there so few of the brodwell desktop parts.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/16/8976223/intel-q2-2015-earnings-moores-law-skylake-kaby-lake-cannonlake
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/intel-confirms-tick-tock-shattering-kaby-lake-processor-as-moores-law-falters/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-cant-keep-up-moores-law/

 

[Tradesman1]

It's becoming a wild hair thing, whenever they feel a need, as you also have to throw in the 'refresh' (s) and also the '-E' models for 2011 socket

 

[dann20201]

Glad to see you here @Trademan1 and thanks eveyone for the help Just curious

 

[Tradesman1]

Thanx 😉 I get around a bit

 

[Brian_99]

Do we know anything about Kaby Lake yet? I was considering building a new rig in a few months with an i7 6700k Skylake CPU but if there's a new one with significantly better performance coming out in the near future I'd rather wait a bit.

 

[utroz]

Kaby Lake is only going to have around 10% more performance in cpu and that is mostly because of clock speeds IMO. Here are the supposed specs.
http://wccftech.com/intel-kaby-lake-desktop-lineup-leak/

 

[Saga Lout]

Brian_99 you should have started a new thread. This one dates back six months and your point is slightly different.

I'll leave it open this time as there's been a response but please don't raise the dead again.

Thanks.