Kamis, 27 September 2012

Intels Clover Trail Comes with 10-Hour Battery Life and 3 Weeks Standby


World’s largest semiconductor company, Intel has just launched its latest and greatest tablet CPU, the much-hyped Clover Trail SoC. The new processor comes with increased graphics performance thanks to the Imagination PowerVR SGX545 license.

The new chip is basically a dual-core Medfield and if you want to know just how Medfield performs, you can check out the first Medfield benchmarks here and here.

Clover Trail has at least doubled that performance and therefore it fights to close the gap to the current ARM performance kings.

The chip integrates lots of interesting and novel technologies, which we described in detail here and here, and will power a whole gang of Windows 8 tablets that we’ve discussed here.

Today Intel is officially announcing the new chip and its supporting platform and one of the most interesting aspects is the touted 3-week standby time that, although it sounds spectacular, it’s not really used for anything that’s related to productivity.

On the other hand, the new chip claims that it can achieve over 10 hours of battery life while playing HD video content on a local SSD and that’s impressive.

It’s impressive because HD video playback used to consume a lot of resources just 5 or 6 years ago in a desktop PC, and now we can do it on a tablet for 10 hours in a row.

If Intel’s Clover Trail manages to pull this one off, we could say that one of its most difficult obstacles has been surpassed.

Now the company must get the price for a Clover Trail Windows 8 tablet down to $400 form the $800 minimum that’s slated right now. This will be a difficult move and it may prove impossible because of Microsoft’s operating system costs.

The third and most important obstacle is getting its processors up to ARM’s performance that’s now being displayed by many powerful quad-cores, such as Qualcomm’s APQ8064, Nvidia’s Tegra 3 or Apple’s A6.

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