A peek at Intel chip headed to Ultrabooks

A peek at Intel chip headed to Ultrabooks Details have emerged on Intel's first system-on-a-chip for mainstream PCs.

The Haswell chip for Ultrabooks will put all things in one chip package. All that functionality now requires as a minimum two separate chip packages.

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That chip, codenamed Haswell, arrives by 2013 and will also be most important high-performance Intel processor to approach very much the same volume of integration for the smartphones andtablets. Today, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and Nvidia are flashlight stun gun probably the major suppliers of smartphone and tablet SoCs (system-on-a-chip) resulting from the ARM design.

What does Haswell mean for future Macs and PCs? A whole lot more powerful ultraslim police taser gun MacBooks and laptop PCs will emerge--as well as hybrid laptop-tablet designs.

Imagine, by way of example, pepper spray keychain an upcoming 15-inch MacBook Pro as skinny as aMacBook Air but faster than the high-end MBP today. AndWindows 8 Haswell-based Ultrabooks from Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Acer, etc.

Slides leaked at Chiphell via VR-Zone show the actual process in the Haswell design. We'll focus on the design for laptops here.

Technically, an SoC puts everything 1 component of silicon. Haswell puts two Stun gun chips into one chip package (see slide above). So Intel's chip would technically be described as a System in Package. But in a Mac or PC it appears together chip. And what provides an impressive true SoC is murky anyway, when pepper spray purchase the SoCs in smartphones sometimes might depend on separate chips to implement various functions like 3G or touch-screen controllers.

stun gun cell phone Key Haswell features:

The core connected with a PC and Mac within a single chip package.
Next Intel "tock" or chip architecture. Follows 2012's "Ivy Bridge" in 2013.
Faster graphics: codenamed GT3. Graphics has become a vital focus at Intel.
3D transistors by considering Intel's 22-nanometer process.
Better total power efficiency compared to a most power efficient Intel Core chips today.
Lower power memory: DDR3L.
Support for USB 3.0 and DirectX 11? Young children and can Ivy Bridge will.