14 DAY TRIAL // For a year now, it's been known that Intel was preparing Skylake central processing units, the successors of Haswell, for a release in 2015. Intel has now confirmed all previous reports that said as much.
Broadwell has just been launched. The Core m Intel mobile processor is based on the technology after all and on the 14nm manufacturing process.
Nevertheless, the chips meant for desktop and laptop PCs are being held in reserve, so to speak, since Haswell is still in the prime of its life, and Haswell-E/EP Core i7 / Xeon CPUs have only recently come forth.
You would think that Skylake, the technology that would succeed Broadwell, would, thus, take at least six months to arrive starting at the point PC Broadwell chips came out.
That would point to a 2016 release, though, and Intel said that wouldn't happen, during the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, California. Indeed, it said that it would release Skylake in the second half of 2015.
This could suggest that it will skip Broadwell completely on the PC front and move straight to Skylake. Maybe Broadwell will remain a codename used only for the Core m mobile chip. It's hard to say exactly what Intel will do.