Leaked Intel CPU Roadmap Reveals Haswell Refresh, BGA Processors and EOL’d Sandy Bridge SKUs

infopc | July 9, 2013 | Technology | No Comments

Leaked Intel CPU Roadmap Reveals Haswell Refresh, BGA Processors and EOL’d Sandy Bridge SKUs

An Intel Box processor presentation has been leaked by Myce which details the upcoming Intel CPU roadmap showing the Haswell refresh platform, BGA desktop processors and the EOL’d Sandy Bridge SKUs.

Intel CPU Roadmap Leak Reveals Haswell Refresh and BGA SKUs

According to the leaked roadmap, its hinted that the Haswell refresh platform is expected
to arrive in Q2 2014, this means that Intel would skip the 14nm
Broadwell architecture on the desktop platform except the BGA chips. It
was already known that Intel would transition to the BGA scape but it’s
looking like a one year gap since Intel would launch Skylake for the desktop platform in 1H 2015 which brings new chipset support along with DDR4, PCIe 4.0 and SATA Express support. Skylake would be the first proper 14nm Intel CPU that would bring various improvements on both graphics and computing terms. But for now, Haswell refresh
is the thing to look forward to by desktop users. The new platform
would remain loyal to the LGA 1150 socket but would get the new Z97 and H97 chipset to bring SATA Express support to PC platform.

Other than that, Haswell refresh is just the same old Haswell
platform on a 22nm process with improved clock speeds and a few
improvements here and there. Intel would also launch their Ivy Bridge-E processors in
Q3 2013 or September 2013 which would bring high end desktop Core
i7-4960X Extreme edition processors with 22nm process to the LGA 2011
platform. Three SKUs would be launched which include 4960X, 4930K,
4820K, their specifications are detailed below:

Model	Cores	Threads	Base Clock (Ghz)	Turbo Clock (GHz)	L3 cache	Memory	TDP
Core i7-4960X	6	12	3.6 GHz	4.0 GHz	15 MB	DDR3-1866	130 Watt
Core i7-4930K	6	12	3.4 GHz	3.9 GHz	12 MB	DDR3-1866	130 Watt
Core i7-4820K	4	8	3.7 GHz	3.9 GHz	10 MB	DDR3-1866	130 Watt

The Intel CPU roadmap also shows the upcoming BGA processors which include the R-Series Haswell and
Bay Trail based SOCs replacing the entry level Celeron and Atom
processors on the destkop platform. The reason behind this move is that
the Bay Trail 2014 SOC is a compact solution offering Quad Core CPU,
Gen7 graphics with DX11 support, Windows 8 support with hardware media
acceleration and upto 3 time the 3D performance over past Celeron and
Atom entry level desktop processors. Following are their detailed specs:

Intel 65W BGA “Haswell” Processors 2013:

Model	Core i7-4770R	Core i7-4670R	Core i7-4570R
Base Frequency	3.20 GHz	3.00 GHz	2.70 GHz
Cache	6 MB	4 MB	4 MB
Cores/Threads	4/8	4/4	4/4
Memory Support	1600 MHz	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Turbo Frequency	3.9 GHz	3.7 GHz	3.2 GHz
Graphics Chip	HD 5200	HD 5200	HD 5200
GPU Core	1300 MHz	1300 MHz	1150 MHz
Memory Controller	2 Channel	2 Channel	2 Channel
TDP	65W	65W	65W

Intel 10W BGA “BayTrail” Processors 2014:

Model	Pentium JR2850	Celeron J1850	Celeron J1750
Base Frequency	2.40 GHz	2.00 GHz	2.40 GHz
Cache	2 MB	2 MB	2 MB
Cores/Threads	4/4	4/4	2/2
Memory Support	1333 MHz	1333 MHz	1333 MHz
Turbo Frequency	N/A	N/A	N/A
Graphics Chip	HD Graphics	HD Graphics	HD Graphics
GPU Clock	698 MHz	698 MHz	698 MHz
GPU Boost	792 MHz	792 MHz	750 MHz
TDP	10W	10W	10W

Last of all, the Intel CPU Roadmap mentions that the chip giant has
EOL’d (End of Life) their entire Sandy Bridge SKU stack which includes
the flagship Core i7-2700K, 2600K and 2600S processors. Two Ivy bridge
processors which include the Core i5 3450 and 3450S processors have also
been discontinued. You can check out the rest of the slides below which
are courtesy of Myce.