From DailyTech: While PC sales in 2014 showed signs of stabilizing in 2014 after a rough couple years, more trouble could be in store for this year. Namely, Intel Corp. (INTC) -- whom the majority of OEMs rely on for the bulk of their desktop and laptop PC processor shipments -- has reportedly delayed the launch of its 14 nanometer architecture "Skylake".
Word of the unconfirmed delay was reported in Digitimes this week. If accurate, the delay would likely disrupts the plans of OEMs who had hoped to reveal new Skylake-equipped product at Computex 2015 in Taiwan this June. OEMs often rely partially on Intel's refresh to push new product. Instead they'll have to get creative and perhaps mix up their launch plans.
Intel is reportedly pushing OEMs and motherboard makers to delay the reveal of new models until the end of August.
Intel's official release date for the Skylake architecture was originally Q2 2015 on Intel's roadmap. However, the report of slippage to H2 2015 isn't all that surprising, given that CEO Brian Krzanich more or less confirmed this several weeks ago. His comments, though, left some ambiguity about the timing of Intel's parts as multiple events -- soft launches, shipments to OEMs (hard launch), and availability to consumer (end-product launch) -- can all be dubbed "launches" of sorts.
But the last Intel refresh -- the 14 nm die-shrink of Haswell, Broadwell -- barely made a Q2 2014 (June) soft launch. Intel remains tight lipped on the slowing schedule, but there's plenty of signs that Broadwell still hasn't reach full volume yet.
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