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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Predicate Object
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
developer Intel
linked to: Intel Corporation
executionPorts 8
followedBy Intel Kaby Lake microarchitecture
integratedGraphicsArchitecture Intel Gen9 graphics
integratedGraphicsBrand Intel HD Graphics 500 series
Intel Iris Graphics 500 series
linked to: Intel Iris Graphics
marketIntroductionYear 2015
marketSegment consumer
enterprise
mobile
maxMemoryChannels 2 (client variants)
4 (server variants)
microarchitectureFamily Intel Core
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
linked to: AMD64 architecture
supportsInstructionSetExtension AES-NI
linked to: Intel AES-NI

AVX2
linked to: Intel AVX2

FMA3
Intel MPX
Intel SGX
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
TSX-NI
supportsMemoryType DDR3L
DDR4
supportsTechnology Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
Intel Speed Shift
Intel Turbo Boost 2.0
Intel VT-d
Intel VT-x
targetPlatform desktop computers
mobile computers
servers
usedInProductLine 6th generation Intel Core processors
Intel Xeon E3 v5 series
linked to: Intel Xeon

Intel Xeon scalable processors (Skylake-SP)
linked to: Intel Xeon

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Intel SGX introducedBy Intel Skylake microarchitecture
Intel Secure Key availableOn Intel Skylake processors
subject linked to: Intel Secure Key (RDRAND)
linked to: Intel Skylake microarchitecture
Intel MPX introducedBy Intel Skylake microarchitecture
Intel MPX introducedIn Intel 6th generation Core processors
linked to: Intel Skylake microarchitecture
AVX-512 firstIntroducedInMicroarchitecture Intel Skylake-X
linked to: Intel Skylake microarchitecture
HT Technology featureOf Intel Skylake microarchitecture
Intel Skylake microarchitecture codename Skylake
linked to: Intel Skylake microarchitecture
Zen targetCompetitor Intel Skylake generation CPUs
linked to: Intel Skylake microarchitecture