Intel's next-generation productive mobile processors will consume only 10 watts

Intel promises to reduce by 41% the power consumption of processors on Haswell architecture, which will replace Ivy Bridge. The version of the chip intended for ultrabooks and tablets will consume 10 watts instead of 17 in mobile processors of the previous generation. Chips on the architecture of Haswell will be produced by 22-nm technology. Naturally, in addition to an impressive reduction in consumption, performance improvements and interesting architectural changes are planned, for example, support for transactional memory . Deliveries of new chips will begin in the first half of 2013. The details will be officially announced at the Intel Development Forum, which will be held in San Francisco from September 11 to 13.

Kirk Skogen, vice president of Intel, in an interview with Forbes said that IDF will focus on ultrabooks this year - this is a very promising niche between regular laptops and tablets. Almost a third of new models of ultra-thin laptops, which should appear on the market in the near future, will have a touch screen, which makes them even closer to the tablets than before. Powerful and economical processor architecture Haswell can be a godsend for such devices.

Using the new energy-efficient architecture, Intel hopes to gain a foothold in the market of thin laptops and tablets, where a small battery and passive cooling do not allow their fast and productive, but voracious processors to compete with economical ARM chips. Moreover, the extremely low consumption of processors with the ARM architecture has already allowed them to wipe the server market , where Intel traditionally dominates.