Intel Skylake microarchitecture

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Intel Skylake microarchitecture is a generation of Intel CPU design that introduced significant performance, power efficiency, and security enhancements for desktop, mobile, and server processors.

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instanceOf CPU microarchitecture
announcementDate 2015
branchPrediction improved branch predictor over Broadwell
cacheConfiguration L1 data cache 32 KB per core
L1 instruction cache 32 KB per core
L2 cache 256 KB per core
shared L3 cache up to several MB
codename Skylake NERFINISHED
developer Intel NERFINISHED
executionPorts 8
followedBy Intel Kaby Lake microarchitecture NERFINISHED
integratedGraphicsArchitecture Intel Gen9 graphics NERFINISHED
integratedGraphicsBrand Intel HD Graphics 500 series NERFINISHED
Intel Iris Graphics 500 series NERFINISHED
marketIntroductionYear 2015
marketSegment consumer
enterprise
mobile
maxMemoryChannels 2 (client variants)
4 (server variants)
microarchitectureFamily Intel Core NERFINISHED
notableFeature enhanced security features including SGX and MPX
improved power efficiency compared to Broadwell
new Speed Shift hardware-controlled P-state transitions
support for DDR4 memory on mainstream desktop platform
performanceImprovementOverPredecessor higher IPC than Broadwell
pipelineWidth 4-wide decode
powerOptimization finer-grained power gating
precededBy Intel Broadwell microarchitecture
processNode 14 nm
processTechnology Intel 14nm process
securityVulnerability affected by L1TF (Foreshadow)
affected by Spectre
securityVulnerability affected by Meltdown
socket LGA 1151
supportsInstructionSet x86-64 NERFINISHED
supportsInstructionSetExtension AES-NI NERFINISHED
AVX2 NERFINISHED
FMA3
Intel MPX NERFINISHED
Intel SGX NERFINISHED
SSE4.1
SSE4.2 NERFINISHED
TSX-NI NERFINISHED
supportsMemoryType DDR3L
DDR4
supportsTechnology Intel Hyper-Threading Technology NERFINISHED
Intel Speed Shift NERFINISHED
Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 NERFINISHED
Intel VT-d NERFINISHED
Intel VT-x NERFINISHED
targetPlatform desktop computers
mobile computers
servers
usedInProductLine 6th generation Intel Core processors
Intel Xeon E3 v5 series NERFINISHED
Intel Xeon scalable processors (Skylake-SP) NERFINISHED

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Intel SGX introducedBy Intel Skylake microarchitecture