There’s a first-gen Pentium and a a first-gen Pentium 4, for example, but when you hear Intel and PC OEMs saying Skylake’s the “6th gen chip,” it’s specifically referring to the CPUs with integrated graphics chips. Keep in mind that processor “generations” have many different meanings to many different people. Today you can’t go five feet into the computer aisle at a store without seeing that Skylake is the “6th gen CPU” on a spec card, or Haswell being described as the “4th gen” chip. I do remember Intel talking about its graphics being the second generation or third generation at some point, but somewhere along the line, it stuck. What’s really odd is why Intel started to use the graphics core as the primary demarcation line. This may help reduce the confusion over Intel’s definition of generation these days. Instead, the graphics were a separate chip that sat next to the two x86 CPU cores, as you can see from the above picture.
And unlike a modern day “6th gen” Skylake processor, Intel didn’t have the capability to actually put the graphics into the CPU die itself back then.
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