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The folks over at Intel have just confirmed that their brand new Broadwell PC chips, which we talked about might just make an appearance in future Surface devices, could be facing a production delay of up to three months. CEO Brian Krzanich claims that these next-generation processors will launch at the bare minimum, a quarter later than expected. This delay has been attributed to “technical difficulties”. The Broadwell PC chips were originally designated to take over the Intel Core i5 Haswell processors as the flagship CPU, where it will obviously be faster than before, and of course bring along with it a new level of energy efficiency that has not been seen before.

Intel also hoped that their continuous refinements and upgrades would be able to move the PC and laptop markets along, resuscitating it to the “good old days”. After all, when the world of tablet PCs and smartphones became mainstream, the laptop and desktop markets started to see its sales figures drop, which is why getting the Broadwell PC chips out as soon as possible might just be the catalyst required to get things moving. Which is your main computing device of choice these days? Do yo tend to do more work on the tablet than on a notebook or desktop?

Intel Broadwell PC Chips Get Delayed original content from Ubergizmo.

If you kept up with last week’s rumors about Intel’s 14nm Broadwell chip being hardwired and non-upgradeable, then you’ll know they were anything but precise. They never quite implied that all of Intel’s next-gen desktop processors would be soldered to the motherboard, even if Broadwell (or some of its variants) did happen to go that way. So perhaps it’s fitting that Intel’s rebuttal — reassuring as it is — maintains the theme of imprecision. In a statement to Maximum PC, the chipmaker said it…

“…remains committed to the growing desktop enthusiast and channel markets, and will continue to offer socketed parts in the LGA package for the forseeable future…”

Now, that’s a solid promise, especially considering how careful silicon companies tend to be about revealing any long-term plans. But it’s also worth bearing in mind that the wording leaves some wriggle room for Intel — not least in terms of selling LGA socket chips only as expensive niche options (i.e. the true definition of “enthusiast”) rather than as mainstream products, should it wish to do so. Indeed, the prospect of Core i3 owners chaining themselves to HDD cages in defense of their upgrade rights may yet come to pass, and no one would want to be on the wrong side of that.

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