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New Intel chips to boost laptop battery by 50 percent
Raymond Wong
Monday, May 27, 2013 - 2:08pm
Raymond Wong
Monday, May 27, 2013 - 2:08pm
New Intel chips to boost laptop battery by 50 percent | DVICEToday's laptops are held back, not by processing power, but by battery life. Even the best laptops can't go more than an average of five hours with multiple intensive applications running. Intel's fourth-generation "Haswell" chips are going to change that.
Intel's new 22-nanometer microarchitecture will reportedly boost laptop battery life by 50 percent, over computers running Ivy Bridge-based chips. It's not quite as impressive as previously reported, but we'll take it. Laptops with Haswell chips will use a feature called "power gating" to intelligently turn off features that suck battery life when the device is not in use.