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Unless there are any last minute changes, Intel will formally introduce Skylake-S (desktop variant of Skylake) on August 5 at Gamescom. The launch will presumably include the immediate availability of Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K CPUs, though at least one vendor has jumped the gun.
Both the 6700K and 6600K have shown up online at Amazon's AU storefront and eBay's Australian website by the same seller, WCCFTech reports. The listings include shots of the retail boxes (not renders), and while the final specs haven't been announced and can't yet be considered official, the retail boxes pretty much confirm what we already know (via prior rumors). Just don't pay any attention to the obviously inflated price tags ($650 for the 6700K and $470 for the 6600K).
These are both unlocked processors with 95W TDPs. The flagship Core i7-6700K brings four cores and eight threads to the Skylake-S party. It has a base clockspeed of 4GHz, boost clockspeed of 4.2GHz, 8MB of L3 cache, and support for DDR4-2133 and DDR3L-1600 memory.
Intel's Core i5-6600K is also a quad-core part, but with base and boost clockspeeds of 3.5GHz and 3.9GHz, respectively, and no Hyper Threading support. It has less cache (6MB) while supporting the same memory as the 6700K.
Skylake will require a new socket (LGA 1151) and represents a "tock" in Intel's "tick-tock" cadence, meaning it's a new architecture as opposed to a die shrink with various optimizations.
The original plan called for Cannonlake (tick) to succeed Skylake in 2016, though manufacturing difficulties in getting to 10nm led to Intel's decision to delay the launch until 2016. To fill the gap, Intel will introduce a chip design manufactured on its current 14nm process called Kaby Lake, thus breaking Intel's traditional tick-tock cycle.
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