Intel's decision to skim over ?Broadwell? CPUs on the mainstream LGA 115x platform meant that prior to today, the High End Desktop Platform (HEDT) was 2-generations behind the mainstream, and in need of a revamp.

The latest architecture from Intel, ?Skylake?, has been with us since August 2015 on the mainstream platform but HEDT users have had to ?make do? with Haswell-E since August 2014. Today Intel reduces the architectural gap back to 1 generation with Broadwell-E.