Broadwell (microarchitecture)

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Broadwell (previously Rockwell) is an CPU microarchitecture designed by Intel, based on the x86-64 instruction set. As a "tick" generation of the company's tick–tock model, Broadwell is a die shrink of its predecessor, Haswell, manufactured with the newer 14 nm FinFET process node. Broadwell-based products are marketed as the fifth generation Core, v4-suffixed Xeon, and various models of Pentium and Celeron. Like some of the previous tick-tock iterations, Broadwell did not completely replace the full range of Haswell CPUs, as there were no low-end desktop CPUs based on Broadwell. The microarchitecture also introduced the Core M processor branding for the first time. Broadwell's H and C variants are used in conjunction with Intel 9 Series chipsets (Z97, H97 and HM97), in addition to retaining backward compatibility with some of the Intel 8 Series chipsets.

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