14 DAY TRIAL // The roadmap slide that revealed to us the ETA for the Broadwell Intel micro-architecture also held a piece of information that, in comparison, was more easily overlooked.
And by that I mean that the slide mentioned a refresh planned for the Haswell micro-architecture.
Apparently, Intel knows that asking its prospective customers to wait a whole extra year more than used to be usual for the next generation of CPUs would be pushing it.
After all, AMD and ARM aren't about to take a nap.
As such, to fill the void that will likely spring by this time next year, the corporation will release a revamped series of desktop Haswell processors in spring 2014.
Meanwhile, Haswell-E chips, which will replace Ivy Bridge-E, are set for release during the second half of 2014.