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Intel Skylake: features Intel Skylake: latest news 12/01/2015:A major bug has been discovered in Skylake chips, which causes them to freeze under heavy workloads. While the fault only applies when the CPU is handling "certain complex workload conditions", Intel said, this will still be something of an embarrassment for the company, as this is exactly the kind of situation Skylake is supposed to perform well in. "Intel has identified an issue that potentially affects the 6th Gen Intel Core family of products," said the company in a statement. "This issue only occurs under certain complex workload conditions, like those that may be encountered when running applications like Prime95. In those cases, the processor may hang or cause unpredictable system behaviour." The company has not disclosed what exactly has caused the problem, but said it is working with distributors to deliver a fix via a BIOS update. 07/12/2015: Intel's Skylake chips could be bent, warped or even broken under the weight of third-party coolers,customers have been warned.

The problem was flagged by German site PC Games Hardware, who found that heavier heatsinks could mess up users' processors, as well as motherboard sockets. This is apparently due to the thinner substrate used in the Skylake chips as opposed to their Broadwell counterparts, despite the fact that Intel claims they should be able to take the same weight. The company has said that the specifications for the chip and motherboard socket are available for manufacturers to follow effectively absolving itself of responsibility, so users should be careful when fitting third-party heatsinks. 9/10/2015:The first wave of Skylake-powered devices have started to arrive onto the market, and they look good. As one might expect, Dell has been quick to update their products to Intel's latest processor, refreshing its XPS portfolio of high-end ultrabooks with 6th-generation chips. Microsoft's latest products also come fitted with the new processors. Not only is the Surface Pro 4 available with Skylake processors, the new chips will also be found in the company's debut first ever laptop, the Surface Book. 2/09/2015: Intel has announced details of its Skylake laptop processors with new branding for its Core M line of power-efficient hybrid and laptop chips and, in a first for the company, a Xeon-branded laptop processor. Intel's new Skylake, or sixth generation Core M, processors will be branded as Core m3, Core m5 and Core m7 and are designed for hybrids, tablets and very thin, fanless ultra-portable laptops. All will be dual-core chips with 4.5W TDP. One of these new Core M processors will be at the heart of a new Intel Compute Stick mini PC although details about this revamped Compute Stick aren't currently available. The far more powerful Xeon E3-1500M V5 quad-core processor will not only have ECC memory and be certified for the stable running of certain professional applications but will have an unlocked multiplier for overclocking. Intel claims that the 45W TDP chip can be successfully overclocked to 4.2GHz with air cooling alone.