Following the company’s tick-tock credo, these new Skylake desktop chips are still going to be based on 14nm manufacturing process like the Broadwell processors before it. A few weeks ago, ASUS Philippines flew us to Bangkok, Thailand, to witness the regional launch of the new wave of Z170 motherboards that will support the new Intel Skylake processors. To put things into perspective, it neared the performance of the famed Snapdragon 700-series chipsets, rather than compete against its price-like 600s. The brand followed it up by releasing multiple iterations of the Tiger chipset at various price points (nothing above mid-range, of course.) This saw massive adoption, not only by big smartphone manufacturers, but the “Shopee-special” tablet brands from China that could now compete without much compromise. Read more in our articles including "Intel Launches 6th Generation Core Processor aka Skylake" and "Asus Debuts Z170 Motherboards".
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Mar 12, 2026Following the company’s tick-tock credo, these new Skylake desktop chips are still going to be based on 14nm manufacturing process like the Broadwell processors before it. A few weeks ago, ASUS Philippines flew us to Bangkok, Thailand, to witness the regional launch of the new wave of Z170 motherboards that will support the new Intel Skylake processors.
To put things into perspective, it neared the performance of the famed Snapdragon 700-series chipsets, rather than compete against its price-like 600s. The brand followed it up by releasing multiple iterations of the Tiger chipset at various price points (nothing above mid-range, of course.) This saw massive adoption, not only by big smartphone manufacturers, but the “Shopee-special” tablet brands from China that could now compete without much compromise.
Our coverage of skylake price includes: "Intel Launches 6th Generation Core Processor aka Skylake"; "Asus Debuts Z170 Motherboards"; "NVidia makes RTX Spark official". Each article provides unique insights and information.