Intel Brings ‘Eye Candy' to Masses with Newest Laptop, PC Chips
Intel® Core™ Processor Features Create New
Visual Experience, Lifestyle
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
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Introduces much anticipated, game-changing 2nd
Generation Intel Core processors. Adds a number of visually
stunning features built right into the chips through processor
graphics.
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Includes surprising and exciting new features such as, Intel®
Quick Sync Video, Intel® HD Graphics, Intel®
Wireless Display 2.0, and Intel®
Insider™ including collaborations with CinemaNow*, Dixons Retail
plc*, Hungama* Digital Media Entertainment, Image Entertainment*,
Sonic Solutions*, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, and Warner
Bros. Digital Distribution*.
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These processors offer amazing video technology. Intel®
Quick Sync can convert a four- minute HD video file on a laptop to
play on an iPod in only 16 secondsii, while Intel®
Insider™ enables full HD movie downloading and viewing on a PC
screen or beaming it from a notebook to an HDTV using Intel
WiDi 2.0.
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20 new processors, new chipsets and new wireless chips including new Intel®
Core™ i7, i5 and i3 processors, Intel® 6 Series Chipsets, and
Intel® Centrino® WiFi and WiMAX adapters will power more than 500 new
PC systems.
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
With more than 1 million computers selling each day, Intel Corporation
introduced its game-changing 2nd
Generation Intel® Core™ processor family today at a press
conference at the Consumer Electronics Show. Intel highlighted several
surprising new features, services and partnerships that combine to
deliver an entirely new visual experience with processor graphics built
in. More than 500 desktop and laptop PCs are expected from all major
OEMs worldwide throughout the next year.
New features include Intel®
Insider™, Intel®
Quick Sync Video, and a new version of the company's award-winning Intel®
Wireless Display (WiDi), which now adds 1080p HD and content
protection for those wishing to beam premium HD content from their
laptop screen to their TV. The company also revealed working with
CinemaNow*, Dixons Retail plc*, Hungama* Digital Media Entertainment,
Image Entertainment*, Sonic Solutions*, Twentieth Century Fox Home
Entertainment*, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution*.
"The new 2nd
Generation Intel® Core™ processors represent the biggest
advance in computing performance and capabilities over any other
previous generation," said Mooly Eden, vice president and general
manager, PC Client Group, Intel. "The built-in visual capabilities
enabled by these new processors are stunning. This, combined with
improved adaptive performance, will revolutionize the PC experience in a
way that is obvious for every user to see and appreciate — visibly
smarter performance."
New Visual Experience for Today's Lifestyles
The 2nd
Generation Intel Core processor family is the first "visibly smart"
microarchitecture to combine visual and 3-D graphics technology with
performance-leading microprocessors on a single chip. Incorporating the
newly architected Intel® HD Graphics on each 32nm die enables
significant graphics performance improvements over previous-generation
graphics for both HD media processing and mainstream gaming. The chips
improve performance and yet still offer great battery life and the
ability to design thinner, lighter and more innovative laptops and
all-in-one PCs.
New processor graphics technology will focus on the areas where most
people are computing today: high-definition (HD) video, photos,
mainstream gaming, multi-tasking and online socializing and multimedia.
Enhanced visual technologies such as next-generation Intel® HD
graphics are built into every 2nd
Generation Intel® Core™ processor. For consumers, this
means a dramatically improved PC experience, with better overall power
management, greater efficiency and great battery life.
Additionally, a surprise new feature of the next-generation PC and
laptop processors, Intel®
Insider™, will give consumers access to movies on their PCs in full
high-definition that were not available before. To explain the
importance of this feature, Eden invited Kevin Tsujihara, Warner Home
Entertainment Group president, on stage.
Tsujihara explained, "Warner Bros. sees the PC as one of the most
broadly available and versatile platforms for delivering premium digital
entertainment, and now that Intel has made it more secure, we're able to
provide new releases and popular catalog titles in full HD to the PC
through our WBShop* storefront and from partners like CinemaNow* on the
same day as DVD and Blu-ray* releases."
Eden used a clip from the feature film "Inception"* from Warner Bros.*
and demonstrated how easy it would be to get the movie from CinemaNow*
and watch it in full HD on a laptop.
In collaboration with Hollywood and Bollywood studios along with leading
content distributors such as CinemaNow*, Dixons Retail plc*, Hungama
Digital Media Entertainment*, Image Entertainment*, Sonic Solutions*,
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment*, Warner Bros. Digital
Distribution* and others, Intel creates a protected environment for the
distribution, storage and playback of premium content. This enables
content owners and video services to release more movies in high
definition. Commercial distribution of HD premium content using the Intel®
Insider™ technology is expected to begin during the first quarter of
2011.
Building upon this Intel®
Insider™ innovation, Eden then showed how consumers can now also use Intel®
WiDi 2.0 to beam content such as the "Inception" film to their
big-screen HDTVs. Additional Intel®
WiDi 2.0 improvements include support for 1080pHD as well as
protected content either streaming from the Internet or played locally
from a Blu-ray or DVD playeriii.
Another unique element of the visual experience built into the 2nd
Generation Intel® Core™ processor family is Intel®
Quick Sync Video. This built-in hardware acceleration takes the wait
out of editing and sharing videos with astonishing performance that
completes in minutes what used to take hours. Now faster than ever,
consumers can edit, convert and share videos with friends and family.
Intel estimated that a 4-minute HD video that used to take 4 minutes to
convert to play on an iPod* would now take just 16 secondsii.
The power of the 2nd Generation Intel Core processors for immersive
mainstream gaming was demonstrated with a teaser from Valve's* Portal
2*, one of the most anticipated game releases of 2011. Eden did the
demonstration with precision Hydra motion controllers from Razer* using
Sixense* MotionTouch* technology.
Smart Performance, Energy Efficiency and Intelligence Merge
The Intel®
Core™ i3, i5 and i7 processors also include the enhanced Intel®
Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. This feature automatically reallocates
processor core and processor graphics resources to accelerate
performance, giving users an immediate performance boost when and where
it's needed.
Other new chip features include Intel® Advanced Vector
Extensions (AVX), Intel® InTru™ 3-D, and Intel®
Clear Video Technology HD. Intel InTru 3-D enables immersive
stereoscopic 3-D to 3-D-capable HDTVs or monitors via HDMI 1.4, making
movie excitement almost come out of the screen.
Intel® AVX increases performance for such demanding visual
applications as audio processing and professional video image editing
such as stitching together multiple photographs. Intel® Clear
Video improves the visual quality and color fidelity during video
playback for a spectacular screen experience.
To make it easy for users to find a 2nd
Generation Intel® Core™-based system that is just right
for their particular needs, Intel is also announcing a wide array of
SKUs including Intel vPro™-enabled processors.
The chips are made on Intel's 32nm manufacturing process on the
company's second-generation high-k metal gate transistors. These unique
advantages further boost performance, reduce power consumption for
better battery life and smaller designs, and lower overall manufacturing
costs.
Intel announced more than 20 processors, wireless adapters and chipsets,
including new Intel®
Core™ i7, i5 and i3 processors, Intel® 6 Series Chipsets,
and Intel® Centrino® WiFi and WiMAX adapters. More
than 500 laptop and desktop PC platform designs are expected from all
major computer makers worldwide based on these products.
The quad-core-based systems (four processors inside one chip) will be
available on Jan. 9 with additional dual-core versions in February.
Video, benchmarks, photos and more details are available at www.intel.com/newsroom/CES.
About Intel
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company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the
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1 Software and workloads used in performance tests may have
been optimized for performance only on Intel® microprocessors.
Performance tests, such as SYSmark*, and MobileMark*, are measured using
specific computer systems, components, software, operations and
functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to
vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to
assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including
the performance of that product when combined with other products.
ii Video transcode claim using Cyberlink* MediaEspresso 6 to
render a 4-minute, 449 MB, 1920x1080i, 18884 kbps, MPG2 video file for
playback on an Apple* iPod* with resolution of 640x360, H.264, and file
format of .MP4.
iiiRequires an Intel® Wireless Display-enabled PC, compatible
adapter and TV. 1080p and Blu-ray or other protected content playback
only available on 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor-based PCs with
built-in visuals enabled. Consult your PC manufacturer. For more
information, see www.intel.com/go/widi
Intel
Connie Brown, 503-791-2367
connie.m.brown@intel.com
Source: Intel
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Released Jan 5, 2011 • 12:00 AM EST
