Intel officially ships Broadwell - Broadwell rMBP very likely

[yellowtruck]

two Gens, tiered pricing as if one

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. The question is what they are shipping. The earlier information was that only some ULV processors will be ready for fall/christmas. Those might be the ones they are shipping to OEMs now. So nothing new, and the Broadwell RMBP is still mid-2015.

I wonder if Intel will try to tier the two generations by price rather than generations?
Broadwell will be the low to mid. Cost wise, the high end broadwell (roughly) will be the low end Skylake so, in a sense, it won’t make sense to use low end skylake. They can have two generations out that make more money schemed as one total tier among two species of chips. Very profitable that way. Does this make sense or am I just on overdrive imagination?

 

[johnnylarue]

I wonder if Intel will try to tier the two generations by price rather than generations?
Broadwell will be the low to mid. Cost wise, the high end broadwell (roughly) will be the low end Skylake so, in a sense, it won’t make sense to use low end skylake. They can have two generations out that make more money schemed as one total tier among two species of chips. Very profitable that way. Does this make sense or am I just on overdrive imagination?

I don't really get it. Wouldn't Intel stand to make more $$$ by producing and selling a full range of Broadwell CPUs and simply pushing Skylake back?

You could argue that for every iteration of a CPU, the high-end previous gen is close in performance to the low-end current gen (which I don't think is particularly accurate, especially when looking at the big picture like battery life/efficiency improvements), but regardless that's never stopped Intel from milking a particular generation of CPU for all it's worth.

If anything, the fact that they're essentially the only game in town means they can get away with pushing back release dates to an extent, even if they wind up irritating some of their customers/partners in the process.

 

[Vanilla35]

The back to school period should be the sole priority of a chip manufacturer considering most sales take place then.

Hahaha, tell me more [insert meme] about how that should be their main priority. Please get some figures before assuming that the giant corporation Intel sells most of it's chips to people of the age 18-21, just because of school.

 

[yellowtruck]

I don't really get it. Wouldn't Intel stand to make more $$$ by producing and selling a full range of Broadwell CPUs and simply pushing Skylake back?

You could argue that for every iteration of a CPU, the high-end previous gen is close in performance to the low-end current gen (which I don't think is particularly accurate, especially when looking at the big picture like battery life/efficiency improvements), but regardless that's never stopped Intel from milking a particular generation of CPU for all it's worth.

If anything, the fact that they're essentially the only game in town means they can get away with pushing back release dates to an extent, even if they wind up irritating some of their customers/partners in the process.

I don't really get it. Wouldn't Intel stand to make more $$$ by producing and selling a full range of Broadwell CPUs and simply pushing Skylake back?

You could argue that for every iteration of a CPU, the high-end previous gen is close in performance to the low-end current gen (which I don't think is particularly accurate, especially when looking at the big picture like battery life/efficiency improvements), but regardless that's never stopped Intel from milking a particular generation of CPU for all it's worth.

If anything, the fact that they're essentially the only game in town means they can get away with pushing back release dates to an extent, even if they wind up irritating some of their customers/partners in the process.

I think you get it. My "(roughly)" was a condensed version of your "(which I don't think is particularly accurate, especially when looking at the big picture like battery life/efficiency improvements),
When Broadwell is released, PC manufacturers will have the option to upgrade to the “very next level” from Haswell to Broadwell at (roughly) the same cost as when upgrading from Ivy Bridge to Haswell.
In order to be profitable and arguably, more profitable because of the delay, Skylake will then be at a higher price per chip than Broadwell – even if it’s just 10 to 20%.
The delay now has generations usually separated by a year or so both available. Had they been released on time a year or so apart, they would have more likely been the (roughly) the same in cost per chip.

Please lets not split hair on percentages or year/s and this is a very genral theory. This was the only way I could see having both generations available be more profitable rather than the regular time interval release. Not even careing at this point if it was intentional or a way to maximize the crumbled cookie of natural delay.

 

[vish26]

Looks like I'm possibly waiting it out until October based on so many conflicting rumours.

You Mean October-2015 right ?