Intel recently announced that they would mass produce their latest Skylake chips, somewhere in late June or early July. Rumors are saying that both Apple's upcoming MacBook Pro and Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 will come out with this high-speed chip.
If the timing is right with 2015 MacBook Pro, this will imply that there is a big possibility that the forthcoming MacBook Pro will have this kind of "revolutionary" spec, resulting to a faster processing speed and at the same time being energy efficient. However, this can only happen if the first ever 14nm Skylake nanochips have been mass-produced in time for the MacBook Pro's production.
As of this writing, Apple has not yet made official statements about whether they are going to sport the MacBook Pro with Skylake, or not. Besides Apple's MacBook Pro, Microsoft's upcoming Surface Pro 4 is also rumored to come out with Skylake.
The Surface Pro 4 is expected to be released in this summer, which is just shortly after the launching of Windows 10 OS. Nevertheless, previous release pattern of earlier Surface Pro versions was held back in February 2013, followed by Surface Pro 2 in October 2013, and with Surface Pro 3 in June 2014. This was perceived to be a "strange release pattern."
Still, Microsoft has yet to make announcements about the Surface Pro 4.
The Skylake chip was previously leaked on a Chinese-language website, Expreview, showing slides of its features. The slides showed that the Skylake-S will come out in 35W, 65W, and 95W types. The highest thermal envelope is reportedly reserved for enthusiast-oriented quads that are expected to have unlocked multipliers. It was also noted that its platform overview mentioned, "enhanced full range BCLK overclocking." Similar to the multiplier-based tuning, the capability to adjust with the base clock could possibly be restricted to the high-end Z170 chipset.
The leak confirmed other rumors that Skylake supports DDR3 and DDR4 memory, suggesting that the CPU will have 16 PCIe Gen3 lanes, similar to Bradwell and Haswell. The leak also showed the platform's chipset and DMI link have been upgraded to PCIe Gen3 speeds.
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