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Intel launches ‘Kaby Lake’ 7th generation Core CPUs for laptops

Intel officials on August 30 took another step in that direction, officially rolling out the 7 Generation Core processors, the third iteration of silicon built on the chip maker’s 14-nanomter process. Intel also says you’ll get almost 10 hours of 4K video playback, and processing a 4K video is up to six times faster than with existing chipsets. The new chips are expected to further improve upon the power draw and performance of Intel’s 14nm family of processors.

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Intel says the new chips are more than 70 percent faster than the processors in the average five-year-old PC, and the 3D graphics are 3.5 times better.

Intel claims its 7th-gen Core chips are 10 times more efficient – in terms of performance per watt – than the first generation, whereas the 6th-gen family were only 8 times better.

Kaby Lake is Intel’s third generation of chips to be based on 14nm process, disrupting the company’s usual tick-tock development schedule, which is now described at “process – architecture – optimization”, with Kaby Lake representing the optimization stage.

This concept is the brainchild of Karen Regis, director of mobile platform marketing at Intel, who believes that consumers are now craving for a more immersive experience – video viewing, virtual reality, gaming, e-sports and the like.

If the data they provided is correct, we’ve no reason to doubt them, Kaby Lake uses barely 0.5W on average to decode a 4K video, while Skylake would require 10W of power. 7th Gen Intel Core delivers up to 12 percent faster productivity performance1 and up to 19 percent faster web performance over previous generation from just a year ago.

To power these experiences, Intel’s new 7th Gen Intel Core processors are specifically built to leverage performance and new media capabilities. More importantly, it does not come with a new processor architecture. Intel touts that its seventh-gen powered laptops can run Overwatch in HD.

These new processors will also bring special support for the new Thunderbolt 3 standard that enables a single cable to support up to 40 Gbps transfer speeds, two 4K 60Hz displays, system charging up to 100W, external graphics, and Thunderbolt networking. Intel also tells its plan to expand this chip to desktop PCs early next year.

The Israeli team, with its colleagues worldwide, has pushed the boundaries of “global technology to new places”, he said.

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Kaby Lake will heavily target new devices such as laptops, ultra-thin notebooks, tablets and All-in-One PCs.

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