"As we reported our two sources who work in major companies operating in
Enterprise, the CPU Broadwell-EX / EP have disappeared from the latest Intel
roadmap.
Our sources tell us that Intel did not send them any official notification
regarding the cancellation of the actual CPU Broadwell-EX / EP, but it's
still strange that these have disappeared from official documents under NDA.
At this point it seems that Intel has decided to leapfrog these CPUs to go
directly to Skylake-EX / EP.
In fact, this choice may not be so unrealistic as Broadwell, compared to
Haswell, actually brings no significant new developments, but a slight
increase in the CPI. Only Skylake will use the new AVX instructions and,
perhaps, of some important new features that can make a difference within the
multitasking / multithreading.
After the sudden appearance of the platform Kaby Lake, between Skylake and
Cannonlake, it seems plausible that Intel is scrambling the cards as much as
possible to maximize the effectiveness of their future product lines,
avoiding both the marketing of CPU (eg , Broadwell-D appeared only in two
variants) not too profitable in the departments of R & D projects of limited
interest."
broadwell-ex / ep最近從路線圖上消失了，或許X99將是很短命的一代。
不只DT被放生，這下連2011都要提早畫上休止符了。