Intel puts an end to the production of Skylake processors, because Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake are already on the market and are very close to reaching the market.
Production of 8th generation Intel Skylake processors has been completed. The sixth generation of processors and predecessor of the Kaby Lake, puts an end to its production and is that the company, about a month after launching the 7th Generation Coffee Lake processors, considers that with the 6th Generation Kaby Lake and those already mentioned, it is more than enough in the market, in addition, that continuing to produce XNUMXth Generation processors supposes an unnecessary cost.
Thus, we were saying goodbye to a family of processors that has been a hegemony, luckily already settled and that is that the AMD FX processors of Bulldozer architecture and various refried, it was not a competition for Intel's 14nm processors. Production is suppressed, but wholesalers, according to the company, will have availability of these processors until March 2018, until the stock is settled or until September 2018. This means that those who want the [amazon_textlink asin = 'B010T6DQTQ' text = 'i7 6700K' template = 'ProductLink' store = 'hardwa028-21 ′ marketplace =' ES 'link_id =' 80d4e3b4-9333-11e7-8a68-235efa130301 ′] or the i5 6600K, you can find it at a good price, quite a bit reduced, so for many it will be an interesting purchase option.
The Skylake were the first 'gamer' processors to have support for DDR4 RAM memories and that made them quite attractive, in addition to improving 5-10% with the previous generation and polishing the consumption issue a bit, although not excessively. These processors did not contribute much more, but it is true that there was no need in the market for something more and the competition did not demand that Intel get the best of itself. Now, with the arrival of the AMD Ryzen, Intel has responded with the Coffee Lake, some processors that were not foreseen in principle or we did not know anything about them, since what was expected were the 10nm Cannon Lake, not another family of 14nm processors.
