Intel Skylake

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Skylake is the code designation for the microarchitecture of Intel Core central processors. It was created on the basis of a technological process of 14 nanometers. The product was released in August 2015.

2024: Downfall vulnerability that allows attackers to steal users' personal data

processors In families Intel released over the past eight years, vulnerability Downfall was found, allowing attackers to steal personal data users, including bank keys enciphering and violate privacy. TAdviser Representatives told about this MTUSI on January 16, 2024.

information security MTUSI specialists tested the Downfall vulnerability and presented a report on the consequences it leads to. Testing was carried out on 2 local, servers equipped with processors Intel Skylake and Intel Ice Lake (3rd Intel Xeon Scalable generation). The study confirmed the presence of a Downfall vulnerability in each case. More. here

2017: Skylake Processor General Features

Skylake, (2015)

The company announced the release of chip lines:

• Skylake-S (LGA 1151) - for desktop PCs;
• Skylake-U (BGA 1356) - for mobile devices (ultrabooks, thin and light laptops);
• Skylake-H (BGA 1440) - high-performance laptops;
• Skylake-Y (BGA 1515) - fanless devices, tablets and hybrids on this computing platform.

Sets of instructions are supported: x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, VT-x, VT-d, AES-NI, CLMUL, TXT, TSX.

General characteristics

• Socket - LGA1151
• Processor frequency - 2800... 4000 MHz
• Bus Frequency - DMI
• Multiplication factor - 28... 40
• Maximum graphics core frequency - 1100/1150 MHz
• Built-in memory controller - there is
• Maximum memory bandwidth - 34.1 GB/s
• Core - Skylake (2015)
• Number of cores - 4
• Technical process - 14 nm
• L1 Cache Size - 64K
• L2 Cache Size - 1024 KB
• L3 Cache Size - 8192KB
• Split L2 Cache - Available

The information is valid as of January 12, 2017.