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[CES 2015] Intel’s new Broadwell processors are the bomb

Another year another generation of Intel processors, or at least that’s what we’ve come to expect from a company that prides itself on its engineering prowess.

But the fifth generation of Intel’s Core series of processors (known as Broadwell) has all but been delayed into 2015, making their entry to the CES party a lot bigger than was initially anticipated.

Ahead of its press conference later in the week Intel showed off some details on its ‘Broadwell U’ chips which will more than likely find their way into almost every mid to high end notebook that you see over the next year. There are 17 chips in total that were announced, all of the in dual core configuration, ranging all the way from the budget Celeron and Pentium lines up through the high end Core i7 processors.

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.

Broadwell is a tick, a shrink of each individual transistor down to just 14nm while still utilising the same processor architecture introduced in Intel’s Haswell chips which brought massive gains in both graphics performance and battery life. Broadwell continues the increases in those two areas with battery life claimed to be up to 90 minutes longer on video playback when compared to the same Haswell part.

Speaking of the graphics prowess, a Broadwell chip is now anywhere between 50%-66% GPU when looking at the total area of the die. Broadwell will be using the same lingo when identifying the different levels of its on-chip graphics packages namely that of Iris and Iris Pro, although chips featuring the latter have yet to be announced as they are all likely to be quad core parts.

For more from CES 2015 click on this link.

[Images – Intel, Source – Ars Technica]

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