Haswell Battery Life

Intel Claims Haswell Will Offer 50% Better Battery Life

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The industry has long been told that Intel’s upcoming Haswell architecture, scheduled for a formal launch June 4 at Computex, will bring improvements to battery life, but recent comments by the company indicate that the improvements could be significant. Intel’s Rani Borkar revealed Thursday that the platform will offer 50 percent more battery life for laptops than current generation Ivy Bridge-based systems. Intel has discussed several times that, while all computing platforms will receive performance and efficiency boosts, the true…

Intel Haswell Iris Pro GPU

Intel Details Haswell GPUs, Brands High-End GT3e “Iris Pro”

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Intel revealed the details of the GPU lineup for its upcoming Haswell microarchitecture late Wednesday. The company announced that it is introducing three tiers of GPUs that will cater to most performance and power efficiency requirements. Along with the new GPUs is a new name to help distance the parts from the public’s perception that integrated graphics solutions offer poor performance. The high end GPUs will take on the name “Iris,” while lower end models will retain the current “HD…

Intel Haswell

Intel’s Haswell CPUs to Launch June 4 at Computex

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After a minor delay, Intel’s next generation of Core series processors, codenamed “Haswell,” will arrive in early June, according to a humorous announcement from the company on Friday. Assuming that the countdown begins at the time of Intel’s post, Haswell should launch Monday, June 3, at 11:00 pm EDT (Tuesday, June 4 at 11:00 am CST), which just happens to coincide with the start of the important computer trade show Computex, held annually in Taipei, Taiwan. The public launch of…