When leaks about Intel Skylake processors first started appearing about 9 months ago, those of us in the tech community were extremely surprised to hear that this new generation would feature an integrated memory controller (IMC) that would support not only DDR4 but the older DDR3 standard as well. There had never before been an Intel processor with a similar dual mode IMC. Once actually launched, Intel's official datasheets revealed that Skylake only supported 1.35V DDR3, also known as DDR3L, which makes sense since that was well within the voltage range of enthusiast DDR4 memory kits and thus would not put undue strain on the IMC.