13 September 2012-Joseph Tsai
Intel's chief product officer has
described how its low-power processors, starting with the company's
fourth-generation Intel Core processor family
available in 2013, will set a new standard for mobile computing experiences and
innovative ultrabook, convertible and tablet designs.
Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum
(IDF) in San Francisco, David Perlmutter said Intel
reduced the platform idle power of its fourth-generation Intel Core processor family based on the next-generation
Haswell microarchitecture by more than 20 times over the second-generation while
delivering outstanding performance and responsiveness. He also said Intel will add a new line of even lower-power processors
based on the same microarchitecture to its roadmap starting in 2013.
Both new products underscore the company's focus to aggressively
drive power consumption down to enable longer battery life and a wave of new,
more mobile designs, while delivering ever-increasing processor, graphics and
media performance.
Since Intel created and invested in the
ecosystem for the new category of ultrabook systems in 2011, it has already
inspired dramatic innovation in personal computing, the company claimed. More
than 140 different ultrabook designs are in development, a number of which are
convertibles, with more than 70 powered by third-generation Intel Core processors available today.
When the company's 22nm fourth-generation Intel Core processor family comes to the ultrabook and
other PCs in 2013, it will bring Intel HD graphics
support, new instructions for faster encryption and performance, new
hardware-based security features and low-power processor sub-states to enable
longer battery life.
To spur even more innovation in mobile computing, Intel's new low-power chips based on Haswell
microarchitecture will broaden the company's mobile roadmap, initially operating
at about 10W to enable thinner, lighter ultrabook, convertible and tablet
designs with better performance and battery life.
Turning his attention to the full mobility spectrum, Perlmutter
detailed how Intel delivers the best choices for
every mobile experience. Coming soon, the next-generation Intel Atom processor (Clover Trail) is a new
system-on-chip (SoC) architected specifically for Windows 8. Based on Intel's 32nm process technology, it powers lightweight
tablets and convertibles, and includes outstanding battery life and always-on
technology in sleek designs.
Perlmutter also articulated the advantages of Intel-based Windows 8 devices, noting that Intel Atom- and Intel
Core-based tablets and convertibles will deliver a range of new features from
enhanced media capabilities, security built for enterprise vertical market
solutions, and support for the breadth of applications written for Intel processors, thus retaining the software investment
of IT and consumers.
The personal computing experience is shifting to one based on
perceptual computing where devices will take on human-like senses to perceive
the user's intentions, according to Perlmutter, adding that Intel is driving these capabilities across Intel platforms both now and into the future.
Perlmutter invited the developer community to work with Intel to bring the next wave of perceptual computing
capability to Intel Core-based platforms with the
release of the company's first Intel Perceptual
Computing Software Development Kit (SDK) beta. The SDK, targeted for release
early in the fourth quarter of 2012, will enable hardware and software
developers to bring gesture interaction, facial and voice recognition, and
augmented reality to life on existing and future Intel Core processor-based ultrabook systems and PCs.
Perlmutter talked about progress made to bring voice recognition to
the ultrabook while showing a system running the Nuance Dragon Assistant Beta
optimized for Intel Core processors. Dell plans to
make the Dragon Assistant Beta available in the US next quarter in its Dell
XPS13 ultrabook, Intel said
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