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Intel Unveils 10-Watt Haswell Chip
adeelarshad82 writes "At IDF, Intel announced the company's fourth-generation Core processor code-named Haswell. The chip is based off of the same 22nm process used in the current third-generation Core products. What makes this chip remarkably different from the third-generation chips is its ability to product twice the graphic capabilities at a much lower power consumption, which Intel has achieved by making use of a number of tactics."
HotHardware has video of Haswell running a 3D benchmark.
>> 5W
How the hell am I supposed to reheat pizza on that?
When you consider that the x86 uses 3x the power, but can run a benchmark such as multithreaded linpack 1000x faster, it suddenly seems like we're getting ripped off by these ARM processors.
In reality, this processor consumes 20x less (I assume that means 1/20th) power of the current Ivy Bridges. I presume that's under normal use. It's a huge win for laptops.
The part I was impressed with was how they did it...
"[...] which Intel has acheived by making use of a number of tactics."
+5 Informative!
Welcome to the internet. We have these thing called hyperlinks. Anytime you see underlined text of a different color, you should consider clicking on it. I you had clicked on the phrase "number of tactics", you would have been taken to view another article which would have explained many of these tactics.
According to anandtech.com, the '20x lower power' statistic is only a reference to the chip's idle power state, not while it's under any sort of processing load.