Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M

14 nanometer process. I vaguely recall how impossible people said that would be to achieve back when the original pentium was an 800 nm process.<p>very cool.

Please Intel, release it in 2014! Don&#x27;t make it slip into 2015! I really really want a 10W NUC with Broadwell i7 as my main desktop machine!

AKA: The chip that will finally let you buy a retina Macbook Air.

One thing I&#x27;m looking forward too more than the power saving advances are the arbitrary precision maths they are starting to finally add. Albeit just integer , add and multiply instructions for now, but a good start.

Sounds like Intel went after a lot of one time optimization improvements for these low power chips, stuff that they aren&#x27;t going to be able to be able to call on multiple times to improver performance. Maybe I&#x27;m wrong, but it seems like they are really pulling out the stops here.

I love ultra low power CPUs that still are able to drive a modern minimal Linux system, based mostly on CLI applications. I thought my Intel NUC was already great, but this might take it to the next level with a completely fanless design, yet cooler and very capable.

New Apple&#x27;s CPUs are ready. Macbooks will be ready for a holiday season. Nothing to see here.