Intel has introduced the fourth-generation Intel Core processor family,with power levels as low as 6W.

Intel said it is enabling thinner, lighter, cooler, quieter and fanless designs. New Intel Core processors also power designs such as all-in-one PCs with great battery life, bringing portability to the growing category. The fourth-generation Intel Core processors are capable of delivering up to 15% better performance than the previous generation.

Consumer and business systems based on quad-core versions of fourth-generation Intel Core processors are now available. Summer availability is planned for 2-in-1s, ultrabooks, portable all-in-ones and traditional notebooks and desktops. New mobile business products with fourth-generation Intel Core vPro will be available later in the year.

The fourth-generation Intel Core processors can bring a 50% improvement in battery life over the previous generation in active workloads when watching movies or surfing the Internet, and two to three times improvement in standby battery life. For some systems coming to market in 2013, over nine hours of active use battery life or 10-13 days of standby with fresh data on a single charge is expected.

To achieve this breakthrough, Intel significantly reduced the CPU power to as low as 6W and also worked across the system for power optimization. These improvements range from system-on-chip (SoC) and platform level technologies to Intel's 22nm process technology. Active power is improved as is idle power by architecting new ultra low-power processor states where the CPU consumes a fraction of the power compared to previous idle states.

Intel expanded its range of Intel graphics in the highly integrated SoC to deliver visuals in thinner and lighter devices. Intel Iris graphics, available on select SKUs of the fourth-generation Intel Core processor family, delivers up to double the 3D performance over today's fastest mobile Intel HD Graphics solutions. Intel Iris graphics bring next-generation mobile computing devices to life with a built-in, visual experience – no extra graphics card required.

All new ultrabooks will be touch-enabled and have Intel Wireless Display capability built in to bring natural touch and motion interactivity and speed mode for low-latency gaming on the big screen. Ultrabooks will also be hardware-ready for voice command and control, giving the user flexibility to choose the most natural and intuitive way of handling the task at hand. Ultrabooks will wake in less than three seconds from deep sleep and in some cases much faster, offering the nearly instant-on experience that people want. Ultrabooks will pull email, social media and other updates while in a low-power mode, meaning less waiting for fresh data upon waking.

Ultrabooks are also equipped with built in security capabilities including Intel Identity Protection Technology (Intel IPT) and Intel Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT) for more computing protection. Websites partnered with Intel IPT help protect log-in information, keeping identities safe based on hardware authentication. Intel Anti-Theft Technology helps protect ultrabooks by automatically disabling it if lost or stolen. The recently introduced McAfee LiveSafe service brings protections available by taking advantage of technology in new Intel Core processors and Intel IPT and Intel AT.

The fourth-generation Intel Core processor family is also ideal for the design of high-performance, low-power intelligent systems for retail, industrial, media servers, medical and digital surveillance environments. The improved 3D graphics and media performance deliver HD media playback for highly visual retail and digital signage applications, while new Intel AVX 2.0 instructions enable faster calculations for the rapid collection and interpretation of sound waves in an ultrasound machine.

It is estimated that by 2016 all TV, video-on-demand and Internet video combined may compose up to 86% of global consumer traffic. Such growth requires innovation in processing technologies to help content providers deliver faster, better-quality video to consumers while at the same time radically optimizing their cloud infrastructure to serve billions of connected devices. Introduced today, the Intel Xeon processors E3-1200 v3 product family comes equipped with graphics featuring hardware accelerated media encode and decode technologies that allows all media and video content providers to deliver up to 4.6 times more videos to customers and decrease their total cost of ownership up to 64% versus traditional servers equipped with discrete graphics used today.

The new microarchitecture and process technology also allow the low-power Intel Xeon processor at 13W TDP aimed at microservers and communication infrastructure. Up to 38% improvement in graphics performance and up to 18% better energy-efficient performance versus the previous-generation also provide an opportunity for upgrading workstations, entry-level servers and storage solutions

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