Intel Announces the Embedded Skylake Lineup

Intel started to unveil a whole line-up of processors based on the now-famous "Skylake" architecture. At first, it started with the powerful "K" series made for overclocking, and then continued to unveil the powerful " Skylake-S" series and the lower-powered "Skylake-H," "Skylake-U" and "Skylake-Y" BGA processors.

Intel's current "Skylake" portfolio is large enough to cover a big swath of PCs and mobile computing devices, especially 2-in-1s, and maintain a strong foothold in the CPU market. Although the Skylake availability is lower than expected, the demand is high, so it won't be a problem for Intel to maintain competitive prices until the market is saturated with the new "Skylake" models.

However, Intel has just launched its embedded socket LGA 1151 platform for industrial, research and corporate database use. The new dual-core models are the G4400TE, Core i3-6100TE, i5-6500TE and i7-6700TE SKUs. All the four recent models resemble the model numbers of the Pentium G4400T, Core i3-6100T, i5-6500T and i7-6700T consumer processors, but this time they have the "E" suffix added. However, the embedded microprocessors not only have a different model number but also carry a different CPU and GPU clock rates. The Pentium series are generally weaker than the Core i3 and i5 series.

Intel refreshes its entire industrial CPU lineup with the new Skylake

The other features, like core count and cache size, GPU type, memory support and TDP values, are pretty much similar to desktop models. Curious facts are that the Core i3-6100TE has larger L3 cache compared to the i3-6100T. The good news is that the new CPUs have better characteristics than their previous "Haswell" predecessors, the Pentium G3320TE, Core i3-4340TE, i5-4570TE and i7-4770TE, since they support 100 MHz higher frequencies or more CPU cores, and the best thing is that the embedded Skylakes arrive with the new DDR4-2133 memory standard.

The new Skylake embedded CPUs for mobile platforms come with a low-powered Skylake-H core and obviously require a 100-series mobile chipset. In this case, Intel will release seven models: the Core i3-6100E, i3-6102E, i5-6440EQ, i5-6442EQ, i7-6820EQ, i7-6822EQ and Xeon E3-1505L v5. Core i3-6100E, i5-6440EQ and i7-6820EQ, which are similar in design with their consumer counterparts the Core i3-6100H, i5-6440HQ and i7-6820HQ models.

The Core i3-6102E, i5-6442EQ and i7-6822EQ come in low-powered 25 Watt versions that are clocked 800 MHz lower than the consumer Core i3-6100E, i5-6440EQ and i7-6820EQ.

With the new models, Intel plans to refresh the CPUs in industrial robots, machines and generally everyday hardware to the new Skylake standard. According to CPU World, the new BGA and LGA microprocessors should be available in Q4 2015.