Intel‘s CES 2011 press conference just went down in Las Vegas, and surprise surprise, it was all about its second generation Core chips, which you might also known as Sandy Bridge, their codename until now. Though announced last week, Intel went into detail about these speedier processors today, and dropped one juicy nugget: we’re going to see more than 500 PCs and laptops with the latest Core chips inside, this year.
Intel’s press conference in the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, shed little new info, especially since it outed all the details on the 2nd gen Core chips last week, reviews are already online, and we’ve already seen some models from MSI with them in.
The big change is the move to smaller 32nm transistors, and the placement of the graphics engine on the same die. That means better performance and better power management, and faster transcoding of video, even without a discreet graphics card. Intel claims a performance boost of around 60 to 70 percent on 2010′s Core chips on day to day tasks like using spreadsheets and video editing.
But the new, new news is just how many machines will ship with it in: Intel says more than 500 PC systems will ship with the new Core chips in this year, and estimates it’ll pull in a third of all of its revenue this year. Yeah, that’s going to be billions, in whatever currency you care to name.
Disappointingly, Intel CEO Paul Otellini had little to say about its mobile Atom chips, MeeGo, tablets or even its set top box processors. But hey, when you’ve got speedier laptops, whose complaining? Now, when are we going to see these in new MacBooks?
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