Skylake-S top CPU is Core i7 6700K
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4.2GHz boost quad-core

It looks like there will be plenty of Skylake products and Skylake-S will be the true successor of Haswell / Haswell refresh processors. 

AMD Godaveri - Kaveri refresh comes at Computex
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Summit Ridge Zen 14nm in 2016

AMD is gearing up to refresh its notebook and desktop APU line-up and to launch a refreshed version of Kaveri.

Apple Watch S1 SoC demystified, looks like plain old A5
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iPhone 4S part in drag

It appears that Apple’s S1 smartwatch module uses a design eerily similar to the Apple A5 of iPhone 4S and iPad 2 fame. 

32 core Opteron supports 2P sockets
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140W max TDP

Opteron processors based on the Zen architecture are coming in 2016 (hopefully) and we expect to see them using 14nm GlobalFoundries' manufacturing process. 

Qualcomm quarterly profit down 46%, misses forecast
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China fine to blame

Qualcomm’s quarterly profit is down 46% and the chipmaker has missed analysts’ already pessimistic forecasts.