


Other end-user improvements will include updated (smaller and cheaper) WiDi adapters with capabilities like the Apple TV and Chromecast, Wireless Gigabit networking, and improved login schemes that don't require passwords (if implemented by your IT folks). You may start seeing people gesticulating and talking to their laptops and tablets more in the coming years. Intel is partnering with UI designers to bring standardized motion control (Intel RealSense) and voice control (Dragon Assistant) to new PCs in 2015. All this, and Intel will be throwing in the usual performance improvements in 3D gaming and multimedia creation. Intel is claiming that the new lower power usage means that even the top level Core i7 processors will see battery improvements of at least an hour over the fourth-generation processors. They will support 4K UHD (3,840-by-2,160 resolution), even over WiDi. Intel is touting DirectX 12 compatibility, OpenGL 4.3, and OpenCL 2.0 support on its new integrated graphics.

You'll start to see Intel HD Graphics 55, plus Intel Iris Graphics 6100 on new laptops, mobile workstations, mini PCs, and all-in-one desktops in the coming year. The new Intel Core processors will consume a paltry 15 Watts of power with Intel HD graphics Those new processors will consume a paltry 15 Watts of power with Intel HD graphics, or 48W with more powerful Intel Iris graphics. The follow-up processors will still follow the same naming convention, in increasing order of price/performance: Celeron, Pentium, Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7. The previous generation Intel Core processors (Haswell) were banner products for Intel, because we started to see 8 hours of battery life as a reachable standard, with 15 hours possible with some power-efficient models. The 14nm Intel Broadwell processor seen here has up to 1.3 billion transistors. What does this mean for end PC users? Processors that do the same or better amounts of work, with less power use, better battery life, and quieter PCs that don't run as hot. The new fifth-generation processors (known as Broadwell) are a tick, which shrinks the processor manufacturing standards to 14nm. Intel has announced the availability of its fifth-generation Intel Core processors, formerly known as Broadwell, as well as new Atom processors based on the Cherry Trail architecture.Įvery year or so, Intel either shrinks its existing x86 processor architecture to become more efficient ("Tick"), or it revamps the architecture ("Tock").

