14 DAY TRIAL // The Broadwell range of CPUs may be scheduled for early 2014, but that doesn't go for the Broadwell-K. Previously, I didn't know when the latter would show up, but now I do.
It's all thanks to a leaked Intel roadmap that found its way to VR-Zone.
According to the slide, the Broadwell-K CPU will be released in late Q4 2014 and will carry the company through most of 2015.
Essentially, it will be a refined version of Broadwell. Among its main assets are support for high-speed SATA drives with 6Gb/s throughput, better security and manageability, and updated rapid storage technology (SSD caching as it were).
They will also be known as the 9-series chips and will feature LGA 1150 sockets, although that doesn't mean that current-generation motherboards will be supported. The power specifications of the socket will change.
Hopefully, “yield problems” won't delay Broadwell-K the same way they delayed the Broadwell.