Intel Skylake-X uses a fully integrated voltage regulator

Posted on Wednesday, June 14 2017 @ 13:13 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Intel introduced a fully integrated voltage regulator (FIVR) with its Haswell processor series but then the company removed it from the Skylake and Kaby Lake architectures. Now the latest official datasheets indicate Intel's upcoming Skylake-X HEDT platform once again features a FIVR.

Speculation was that Skylake's IVR was linear while the FIVR in Haswell/Broadwell was switching. We do know that Ryzen uses multiple linear regulators, and it seems that Intel is back to the integrated voltage regulator, but the datasheet does not say if it is a linear regulator or a switching regulator. So what can we take away from this? I take away that Intel's Skylake-X is not just Skylake with more cores, it has not only been optimized for higher core counts but it also has a lot of surprises in store for us.

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