Intel's forthcoming fourth-generation Core chips Haswell energy consumption by half

Will be held next week at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel disclosed fourth-generation Core chip "Haswell", the energy consumption is the most energy-efficient third-generation mainstream Core chip "Ivy Bridge".

Ivy Bridge chips currently used for the thinnest notebook MacBook Air and HP Envy Spectre XT, with a rated power of 17 watts.

The fourth-generation chip will be listed in the second half of 2013, initially rated power of 10 watts, compared with the third generation Core chip energy consumption is reduced by about 41%. After the introduction of chip power consumption will be lower.

The launch of a new generation of low-power chips, producing thinner, lower energy consumption of the product will become a reality. For example, the current Tablet PC ARM chip thickness is only 0.3 inches, weighing less than 1 pound. The rated power of the energy consumption of products based on the ARM chip is typically 2 watts.

Although mainstream Intel x86 chips can not get the level of energy consumption, but its powerful function than ARM is Microsoft introduced two versions of the Surface Tablet PC reason. After Surface products will use the more powerful Intel Ivy Bridge processor, run a full version of Windows 8 Pro.

Intel will continue to provide the Atom family of processors, rated as low as 2 watts of power, but there are performance issues when running a full desktop version of Windows unable to obtain Intel expected effect.