What the silicon giant calls its “best processor range ever” will be divided into Y series for 2-in-1s, tablets and compute sticks, the U series aimed at thin notebooks and portable AIOs, H series for high performance mobile computing devices and workstations and the S series for desktops.
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Intel has staked its claim that the new Skylake chips are capable of offering over double the performance and at the same time, deliver three times the battery life where your machine is concerned.
Whether it’s a mobile device, a computer stick, an AIO, or a full-sized laptop computer, the 6th generation Intel Core processors can take things to a higher level, thanks to the new Skylake microarchitecture and Intel’s 14nm manufacturing process. They can also be half as thick and half the weight, have faster wake-up time, and battery life that lasts virtually all day.
Computers will soon have gears like cars and trucks, thanks to a feature in Intel’s new 6th generation processors announced today.
Skylake chips using Intel’s high-end integrated graphics systems, Iris and Iris Pro, are also scheduled for release during that same time frame.
Two 45W Intel Xeon processors for mobile workstations. The sixth-generation Intel Core processors deliver improvements in graphics performance to offer visuals for gaming as well as Ultra HD content creation and media playback.
The new processors will use Intel WiDi, the company’s new standard of wireless display protocol, and seeks to promote the “no wires” idea for laptops and PCs.
The firm already has facial recognition technology in its RealSense cameras and the presentation showed this technology being used to gain entrance to your vehicle, as well as giving “eyes” to drones, which can then manoeuvre around obstacles on their own.
The new chips are also tailored towards powering devices running Windows 10, with Intel keen to show off that its technology helps optimise some of the key apps in Microsoft’s latest software. But today at IFA, Intel introduced the rest of the Skylake family that will power just about every other type of device with their refined 14 nm architecture.
In terms of additional Core M upgrades, Intel says processors featuring Skylake processors will run significantly more stable. A variety of devices across a wide range of form factors will be available now and over the coming months from manufacturers around the world.
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As usual, the specifics of Intel’s Skylake processors are hidden behind a decoder ring’s worth of alphanumeric gibberish, but it’s not that hard to decode.
