Intel is rumored to be delaying the release of Skylake, its next generation x86 microarchitecture planned for next year. The delay, while only one or two quarters at the most, would be the second following the delay of Broadwell, its shrink of the existing architecture.

Intel has taken it on the chin with the decline in PC sales but hasn’t faltered on its tick/tock product release plans, although there were delays. Broadwell, the 14nm shrink of the Haswell architecture, was supposed to ship in Q1 of this year when it actually began shipping this quarter and that’s in limited numbers. Intel attributed that to a manufacturing glitch, understandable when you are making transistors 14 nanometers in size.

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