In wiki by Skylake, now its been rewritten to show just mainstream Skylake info. EDIT: I remebr coping that whole data once and posting here @ forums, but can't find it atm.. I did found this, Xeon aka LGA2011 Skylake-E variant mentioned pcie4.0 back in 2013, but no pcie4.0 for mainstream yet, and since Z170 is 90% CannonLake compatible then the thing after. http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=news&action=file&id=3068 http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/intel_skylake14nm_cpus_have_pci_express_4_ddr4_and_sata_express.html

@ Tj: thanks! I was really curious about a non-Xeon E. But 2011 socket again? That can't be right, I think? Anyway, if you happen to stumble upon your older info again, do link it please. I don't think we'll see Cannonlake until at least 2017, with Kaby Lake being the placeholder until then. I'm still not sure what the point of the latter is. It's a refinement, sure, but why not just keep it as a Skylake revision. Right now, with the little info out there, it seems like a small refinement - but time will tell. It will be nice to have the DDR3 controller off, despite DDR4 offering nothing whatsoever vs DDR3, I just think a single aimed controller is better than two, but that could be just my imagetination. An earlier poster said something about 6 cores/HT @ 4 GHz - could happen but I doubt it personally. It'll be more like 3.6/3.8 I suspect, hexacores will always have lower frequencies than their quad counterparts and are probably aimed at workstations (like Haswell-E was) rather than gaming rigs (where quad cores without HT should suffice as you can take advantage of the higher clocks per core). So basically Haswell-E for a workstation, Skylake i5-6600K / i7-6700K / Kaby Lake for a gaming rig.

Well mainstream is LGA115x, Enthusiast/server is LGA2011-x since SandyBridge days.. 6core+ is enthusiast thing, I doubt we will ever see it by mainstream unless they make one chip without igpu, but then again that's what Enthusiast chips are for. At least they will implement DDR4, 4 extra pcie3.0 lanes & DMI 3 by mainstream Z170 chipset. From my understanding CannonLake is what Broadwell is to Haswell.. X99 is Haswell-E and Boradwell-E compatible, then new chipset X179? (Q2-Q3 2016) with Skylake-E and CannonLake-E (y2017) both pcie 4.0. I personally won't go mainstream anymore, Im thinking either Skylake-E 8core as entry LGA2011 cpu, like 5820K is a 6core now or AMD Zen - this thing looks very promising too. EDIT: found that older wiki info

Z170(Sunrise Point) Chipset TDP up to 95w(LGA 1151) support for both DDR3 SDRAM and DDR4 SDRAM in mainstream variants, with up to 64 GB of RAM on LGA 1151 variants. support for 20 PCI Express 3.0 lanes (LGA 1151) support for PCI Express 4.0 (Skylake-E/EP/EX) support for Thunderbolt 3.0 (Alpine Ridge) 128 KB L1 cache (64 KB 16-way set associative instruction cache + 64 KB 16-way set associative data cache) (2 cycles)[citation needed] 512 KB L2 cache, 16-way set associative (6 cycles)[citation needed] 12 MB L3 cache, 24-way set associative (12 cycles)[citation needed] 128 MB L4 eDRAM cache Up to 4 cores as the default mainstream configuration support for SATA Express AVX-512F: Advanced Vector Extensions 3.2 Increase integer register from 16 in x64 standard to 32 in EM64T enhance mode(r16~r31 for enhance mode only and can be use for memory segment in normal x64 ISA)[citation needed] Intel SHA Extensions: SHA-1 and SHA-256 (Secure Hash Algorithms) Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions) Intel ADX (Multi-Precision Add-Carry Instruction Extensions)

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4834089&postcount=12 Looks like mainstream CannonLake will have another chipset after all, not really surprised there, they know how to milk them chips :P

Cannonlake (formerly Skymont) is Intel's codename for the 10 nanometer die shrink of Intel's Skylake microarchitecture, expected to be released in 2017. It is expected Intel will release one more 14 nm generation called Kaby Lake before the 10 nm shrink.[1] As a die shrink, Cannonlake is a "tick" in Intel's tick-tock execution plan as the next step in semiconductor fabrication.[2] Cannonlake will be used in conjunction with Intel 200 Series chipsets, also known as Union Point. The platform as a whole will be named Union Bay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonlake

Oh yeah, 2011 since SB...I knew that somewhere in the back of my head. Long day, can't think straight lol. I do think there won't be a Broadwell-E though, in favor of Skylake-E. Broadwell is nice for laptops and what not, and seemingly more pointless than Kaby Lake imho - although my thoughts are probably a bit premature (as in too early to tell). Yeah a new chipset for Cannonlake was to be expected. I really would like to know more about the architecture - as always ha ha! Would you prefer an 8 core E chip at lower clocks (although I assume you'll OC it of course) to a much faster, and maybe easier to OC 4 core S series? I think the former won't offer much (again, depending on what one is using it for) advantage over a faster 4 core part solely where gaming is concerned - if the past and current chips are anything to go by. But I digress a bit and am really just speculating which doesn't do anyone any good. Personally I'd prefer to invest my money wisely (which is just an opinion of course) and go for the better 4 core part and spend more on the GPU (because my heaviest loading is by games). Does anyone have any idea about what comes after Cannonlake?

And Kaby Lake is delayed already: http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intels-kaby-lake-processors-will-be-released-in-late-2016-report/

^ I think they made Kaby Lake so it makes Z170 "more long lasting". Then shove down another chipset exclusive for CannonLake.. Bigger profit this way. Initial news was CannonLake would be Z170 compatible too. At least they won't do that by Enthusiast series, hopefully. X179 or what ever its called should be both SkyLake-E and CannonLake-E compatible.

And Kaby Lake is delayed already: http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intels-kaby-lake-processors-will-be-released-in-late-2016-report/

There is no delay if the product never had an official release date in the first place.