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Guru3D.com » News » Intel has record sales of Core i7 and K-model processors in declining CPU market

Intel has record sales of Core i7 and K-model processors in declining CPU market

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/15/2016 06:27 PM | source: | 28 comment(s)
Intel has record sales of Core i7 and K-model processors in declining CPU market

In the last quarter of 2015 Intel has seen its revenue for client processors drop by 8% due to a declining market, however high-end PCs seem to make a comeback or are more popular then ever as they increased their sales in this segment with the high-end Core i7 processors.

Especially the 14nm based K models like the 6600K and 6700K sold extremely well. With good news comes bad news, the high demand of flagship processors has an effect. As a direct result the average direct sales price of these SKUs went up by a good 17% compared to 2014. 

Intel: Even though the Client Computing Group ended the full year down 8%, we were excited to see that we were able to grow sequentially in the second and third and fourth quarters. As of November, 14 nanometer products made up more than 50% of the Client Computing volume. For the year, high-end Core i7 microprocessors and our K SKUs for gaming, both set all-time volume records, leading to our rich product mix.

14nm products sold well, this year we'll see the 3rd gen 14nm products released as Intel expects to take the 14nm fab lifespan to five years opposed to four years. That is fabbed under the microarchiteure name kaby lake. 

Kaby Lake is Intel's codename for the upcoming 14 nanometer successor to the Skylake micro-architecture. Skylake, a "tock" in Intel's "tick-tock" strategy, was to be succeeded by the 10 nanometer Cannonlake, which is a "tick", but it was announced on July 16, 2015 that Cannonlake had been delayed until the second half of 2017.


MicroarchitectureCPU seriesTick or TockFab nodeYear Released
Presler/Cedar Mill Pentium 4 / D Tick 65 nm 2006
Conroe/Merom Core 2 Duo/Quad Tock 65 nm 2006
Penryn Core 2 Duo/Quad Tick 45 nm 2007
Nehalem Core i Tock 45 nm 2008
Westmere Core i Tick 32 nm 2010
Sandy Bridge Core i 2xxx Tock 32 nm 2011
Ivy Bridge Core i 3xxx Tick 22 nm 2012
Haswell Core i 4xxx Tock 22 nm 2013
Broadwell Core i 5xxx Tick 14 nm 2014 & 2015 for desktops
Skylake Core i 6xxx Tock 14 nm 2015
Kaby lake  Core i 7xxx Tock 14 nm 2016
Cannonlake Core i 8xxx? Tick 10 nm 2017

Kaby Lake will add native USB 3.1 support, whereas Skylake motherboards require a 3rd-party add-on chip in order to provide USB 3.1 ports. It will also feature a new graphics architecture to improve performance in 3D graphics and 4K video playback. Kaby Lake will add native HDCP 2.2 support. Kaby Lake will add full fixed function HEVC Main10/10bit and VP9 10bit hardware decoding. Kaby Lake will have an integrated memory controller that supports both DDR4 (2400 MHz) and DDR3 (1600 MHz) memory.

The 200-series chipset tied to the processor series is tagged under codename "Union Point," and will support Intel Optane SSDs and Rapid Storage Technology support for PCIe storage devices.  Intel will release Kaby lake in the 2nd half of 2016. Kaby lake will be based on Skylake and will offer better performance. Effectively this means we will see three families of 14nm Intel chips: Broadwell from 2014, Skylake in 2015, and Kaby Lake in late 2016. 10nm Cannonlake parts should follow in 2017.







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cowie
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#5219167 Posted on: 01/15/2016 10:36 AM
do they have proof of this ? usually there is a sales report thingy with a statement like this.

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#5219171 Posted on: 01/15/2016 11:25 AM
Marketing bs. I bet they sold more or less the same what they sold with previous generations.

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#5219203 Posted on: 01/15/2016 01:21 PM
intel news is boring to me lately
waiting for more skylake-e leak

well most people use smartphone/tablet for daily use
not many people buying desktop pc nowdays, as notebook somehow good enough for those user... plus its portability, can use it anywhere we want
nowdays mostly only gamer still buying desktop

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#5219209 Posted on: 01/15/2016 01:50 PM
Better save money on proper GPU I guess.

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#5219214 Posted on: 01/15/2016 02:03 PM
It's just all of those 2500/2600K users hopping on the 6600/6700K bandwagon :p

I hopped on the 5820K bandwagon though :D

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