Although Intel's upcoming Skylake processors will not be built in a more advanced architecture than the existing 14nm - also used for the currently available Broadwell chips, the new processor series seems to have power optimizations and high-performing graphics cores. Fanlesstech.com has posted online what it seems to be a leaked slide deck issued by Intel.

Four variants are detailed, with the Y-series, U-series, and H-series all being mobile BGA-packaged chips aimed at mainstream notebooks, ultraportables, and high-end notebooks respectively. According to the slides, performance is up by 17 percent, 10 percent, and 11 percent respectively, and that the Y- and U-series chips will both see up to 1.4 hours longer battery life when powering a typical system.

The S-series is a desktop chip and comes in an LGA package for the new LGA-1151 socket. Here Intel says that we should expect an 11 percent faster CPU and a 22 percent lower TDP, down from 84W to 65W.

In the graphics department, Intel seems to have done a good job in the integrated Intel HD Graphics chip. The Y-series is listed to offer an up to 41 percent higher performance, and also the rest Skylake series chips are gaining an up to 16-34 percent boost.

Intel is also rumored to release a K-series variant, which is expected to have an unlocked multiplier for overclocking.

Skylake CPUs will also finde their way to Intel's Compute Stick and NUC solutions, with Asian partners including Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Computer, Asustek Computer and ASRock to launch related products.

The new Compute Stick will feature 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage space and support Ultra HD resolutions. The solution using the Core m3-6Y30 processor, which is set to release in October, will have with Windows 10, while the solution using the Core m5-6Y57 vPro processor, will not come with a pre-installed operating system. In the first quarter of 2016, Intel is planning to launch inexpensive Atom x5 processors.

In November, Intel will reportedly launch two Skylake-based processors codenamed Swift Canyon, specifically for the NUC segment and will release high-end Core i7 processors at the end of the first quarter 2016 to improve the product line's specifications and functions.