Intel plans to introduce a new Haswell processor which will enable Ultrabooks to be even thinner. The upcoming Haswell processor will feature a special edition multi-chip-module (MCM) and Lynx Point I/O controller. The chip will help to greatly simplify design of ultrabooks as well as offer a reduced TDP of 15W, making it high performance with the lowest power consumption.
The new processor will a few new features that the current line up doesn’t have such as Thunderbolt, NFC [near field communication] & an update to the anti-theft technology to 4.0. It will also continue to have two or four cores with Hyper-Threading technology along with graphics adapter that shares last level cache (LLC) with processing cores and works with memory controller via system agent.
The single-chip will have two x86 processing cores, DirectX 11.1-capable graphics core and dual-channel LP-DDR3/DDR3L memory controller on the same die as well as Lynx Point-LP input/output controllers on the same piece of substrate. All of this of course is designed to increase performance and lower pricing, exactly what we’d expect from a new CPU.
