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Double battery life promised by Intel’s new Broadwell processors

Computers, laptops and tablets are soon to get yet another upgrade in the processing department. The introduction of the next generation of Intel’s processors code named Broadwell are set to be available inside low-powered tablets and notebooks before the year is out.

While most people who use computers will be instantly familiar with the ‘Intel Inside’ logo, few will be know with the code names for the different generations of processors that are made by the manufacturing behemoth that is Intel.

Last year Intel released its fourth generation of Intel processors which were codenamed Haswell.

Intel’s product cycle is known as the tick-tock cycle. A tick being the shrinking of the transistors inside a processor architecture (design) down to a smaller size and therefore being able to fit more of them onto a single die (the whole processor), and a tock representing the introduction of a new architecture that brings a more drastic change to the operation of the processor as a whole.

Haswell was a tock, a change in the architecture that ushered in drastic increases in battery life for notebooks as well as bringing in a new generation of on board graphics called Iris which most famously found its way into the 15 inch Retina MacBook Pro as the Crystal Well processor.

Broadwell will, according to Intel at least, offer even more in the battery life stakes while still offering modest performance increases as well. The first chips that we’ll see from the Broadwell stable will be the Core M chips, the lowest in terms of processing power but also in terms of the actual battery power they use, designed for smaller tablets and potentially low powered notebooks like Google’s Chromebooks.

They replace the Intel’s Y-series chips in the Haswell product line and will offer twice the performance-per-watt as the outgoing chips. That means that manufacturers will be able to make tablets that offer twice the performance while retaining the same overall battery life or twice the battery life with the same performance or a combination of the two.

I am, unashamedly, a processor fan boy and a new generation of Intel processors make me happy in a way that most people will fail to understand, however, this new generation of Broadwell processors has the potential to make everyone happy by drastically increasing the battery life of notebooks and tablets again… and who doesn’t want that?

If you’re looking for a more intricate, and much longer, article about the new Broadwell Core M processors then the usual suspects at Anandtech have you covered.

[Source, Image – Anandtech]

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