Intel is to launch its "6th generation" Skylake processors next week, paving the way for Microsoft's first serious hardware push on the Windows 10 operating system.
Representing the "tock" on Intel's 14 nanometer chip architecture (the "tick" of the company's traditional "tick-tock" principle of shrinking a chip size followed by a new microarchitecture), Skylake promises to "set a new standard" with "new, sleek designs that are thinner than ever" and that start up in as little as half a second, with "up to two and a half times the performance" as well as, curiously, "triple the battery life when compared to the computers many people currently own".
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