Intel Broadwell-K CPUs Rescheduled for Mid-2015 Release
Intel has planned to unveil its first Broadwell-based Core series Celeron as well as Pentium CPUs, perhaps during the third quarter of the year.
December was pegged as the earliest time of its arrival. Although the best schedule would be on January 2015, during the Computer Electronics Show (CES 2015).
In the meantime, the Skylake-based CPU line is still set to be released on mid-2015, complete with a new socket that suggests that the Broadwell's lifespan will be significantly short.
So far, no further rumors had arise to confirm this. However, Chinese VR-Zone website posted the updated roadmap, in a sense, for the Broadwell-K lineup.
The strange thing, however, is that the delay from early 2015 to mid-year makes the Broadwell-K coincide with the next generation of central processing technology that is Skylake.
Nevertheless, if this were the Broadwell-E series, it would not be all that strange. After all, Sandy Bridge-E/EP took over the extreme-performance/workstation segment when Ivy Bridge was released. Then later, Haswell and Haswell-K debuted Ivy Bridge-E followed.
Pushing Broadwell-K back to the middle of 2015 means that the processors will coincide, with the Skylake-K (the K is the suffix added to the CPUs with unlocked multipliers for major overclocking potential).
Honestly, the last time table for Broadwell-K wasn't much sooner: mid-May to late-June 2015, but it's still a delay.
For now, there are two probabilities. Either Intel will delay Skylake-K CPUs just like it did with the Broadwell-K, or the whole Skylake line will be delayed.
The second option could really make more sense since the Skylake CPUs need motherboards with would need sockets from Broadwell / Broadwell-K, so it would be awkward to have a core chip line with LGA1151 compatibility but enthusiast-class CPUs with LGA1150. Especially since that would imply that the overpowered CPUs would be compatible with current 8-Series and 9-Series mainboards, while the "normal" ones wouldn't be. A truly backwards situation if ever there was one.
