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  • MrCommunistGen - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    It seems to also be listed in the Intel ARK: http://ark.intel.com/products/88192
  • MrCommunistGen - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    oops nm... 6660U
  • zepi - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    EDRAM versions have seemed to be very elusive vaporware as they are only now starting to show up in some devices...
  • Valantar - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    Unfortunately, it seems like device makers outside of Apple have some sort of Iris anxiety. And of course, apple only uses the more power hungry 28W versions. Considering how graphics horsepower is the most obvious weakness of todays ultrabooks, I really don't get why we aren't at least offered an option with this. With a $22 price difference, they would even make (sort of) a killing swapping these in and making this option a $50 upgrade. I'd gladly pay that for a decent iGPU in an ultrabook.
  • ikjadoon - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    Hmmm...I wonder. Looking at the Iris options, you have 15W for 48EU + 2.4GHz base. Can you realistically use both the GPU + CPU effectively enough to game? 15W is not a lot of headroom, thermally or electrically.
  • Hrel - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    Well, if you intend to game then you aren't looking at Ultra Books, so....
  • Valantar - Sunday, March 27, 2016 - link

    Not without the CPU throttling way below base - you already see that on non-iris parts, no reason to expect anything else with these. Although (with sufficient cooling in the system) I'd love for Intel to be more flexible with this. Don't see how increasing the power limit to 20 watts while gaming would harm anything. It's not like anyone but Apple uses the 28W SKUs anyway.
  • ajp_anton - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    I just ordered a Dell XPS13 with the i7-6560U. Seems to have been an option there for a while now.
  • Krysto - Sunday, March 27, 2016 - link

    Yup, but it paid handsomely for Intel in terms of great PR, especially when sites like Anadtech went right along with Intel's misleading of customers by comparing Iris Pro to mainstream dedicated GPUs, as if you were actually going to get the much more expensive Iris Pro to replace those mainstream GPUs from AMD and Nvidia.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    Hoping that 6567u ends up in the 13 inch macbook pro
  • flashpowered - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    I've been wondering for a while why Apple haven't launched Skylake MacBook Pros. If the i7-6567U means they will be able to drive a 5K monitor, then it will have been worth the wait.
  • ikjadoon - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    I think they're waiting for Kaby Lake, actually, to get USB 3.1 type-C / TB3.
  • Valantar - Sunday, March 27, 2016 - link

    If they want TB3, they would need a separate controller no matter what, no? Or are you saying it will be integrated with the PCH in Kaby Lake? Considering the TB3 controller also does USB 3.1, why wait for even that to be integrated? While I don't think Intel cares about the revenue from TB3 (which would be minuscule compared to their CPU business), they do love product differentiation and framing their products as premium solutions - and integrated TB3 would kill that.
  • lilmoe - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    "It is unclear whether the refresh is conditioned by the upcoming spring refresh cycle of PC makers or higher yields of chips produced using the 14 nm process technology. Nonetheless, the new CPU will help PC makers to differentiate their new offerings and speed up performance in certain applications."

    I'd vouch for the latter, since the applications that would benefit from a higher base clock are better served with the 6600U. Unless there are other features the new chip supports that weren't mentioned...
  • MrSpadge - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    3rd option: marketing decided it's OK to release it now. There don't have to be technical reasons.
  • Kjella - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    It doesn't even have to be much of a yield difference, as I understand it if you have some small fraction of "golden" chips like say 20% you don't make its own SKU and you don't ship it out at lower clocks, you just save up that bin and after say half a year you have enough inventory to introduce a +100 Mhz model. It's a way of getting people to buy at the tail end of a cycle before you release your next generation processor.
  • Bryf50 - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    I can't wait for no OEM to actually use this chip. Like all the other Iris Skus.
  • MrSpadge - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    I wish the Skylake GPUs could be put to good use running Einstein@Home, like all previous ones since Ivy. But they can't due to OpenCL driver problems.
  • LordConrad - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    666... Intel should have waited and named this one "Devil's Canyon"
  • HurleyBird - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    I wish Intel would stop naming dual core offerings i7.
  • smilingcrow - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    Why do you care? It's just their way of making clear which are the best chips for each market segment. It's not difficult to follow.
  • jasonelmore - Thursday, March 24, 2016 - link

    Mobile is way overpriced.. $414 for a die size that is super small. The profit margins on these chips are out of this world.
  • HollyDOL - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    Of course they are invented and manufactured to be profitable. But those margins are not that insane as you might think. Research and manufacturing costs (technologies, fabs, pple of necessary skills and knowledge etc. etc.) of modern cpus are probably meeting GDP numbers of poorer countries.
  • hojnikb - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    Do you really thing manufacturers pay that much for those chips ?
  • 06GTOSC - Friday, March 25, 2016 - link

    I'm not a big fan of dual cores being labeled as i7s.
  • Valantar - Saturday, March 26, 2016 - link

    So you're suggesting that Intel should leave its biggest-selling market segment without a denominator for top of the line products? That seems pretty daft.

    i7 means the best cpu in its segment, nothing else. What that means depends on the segment. U series? all dual cores - as of now no way of increasing core count in that tdp without killing clock speed - but turbo, cache and clock speeds separate them. i3/5/7 is a decent indication of relative performance. Do you disagree with top end core m being named m7 as well?
  • Krysto - Sunday, March 27, 2016 - link

    Intel's line-up is getting so damn confusing, and I bet it's on purpose so they can essentially "lower" the performance on previously "high-end chips" to make higher profits.

    They did it to Celerons and Pentiums when they went from the Core-based architecture to the Atom one, and now they're doing it with Core i7, too, dropping it from 4 cores to 2 cores, while reducing the price only slightly, if at all. And most people who don't pay attention to these changes will buy a Core i7 thinking they are getting the "best Intel chip", when in reality these Core i7s are just Core i5s.

    Samsung or Qualcomm need to buy AMD already and show Intel some real competition. It's becoming very frustrating to see how Intel is ripping off the market more and more with each new generation because they know people will keep buying their chips "because Intel".

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