14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's Sandy Bridge central processor will debut sooner or later and it seems that the Huron River platform which they will be part of will actually have great benefits in terms of power consumption, compared to existing solutions.
As consumers may know, the Sandy Bridge series of central processing units will soon be delivered by Intel as the successor to the current Core series of CPUs.
These chips will be part of the Huron River platform and will be built on the 32nm manufacturing process technology.
The more advanced process alone will do much to optimize the power efficiency of the chips, even as the clocks will be higher.
In fact, the chips will be so power-efficient that, according to Fudzilla's recent report, quad-core versions will actually have power consumption equal to that of existing dual-core ones.
What this means is that, even though quad-core chips are known to be less merciful when it comes to battery life, Sandy Bridge chips will actually let the mobile PCs last longer.
According to the report, a 15-inch workstation notebook should be able to last for four or even five hours on a single charge.
Of course, there will also be dual-core chips, and these will have a significantly lower power draw, to the point where the machines they power will last longer than many of today's netbooks.
To be more specific, at least according to the aforementioned report, a notebook equipped with a dual-core Sandy Bridge CPU will be able to keep running for up to more than eight hours.
Granted, this feat will only be possible on certain select configurations, but the fact remains that such machines will exist and will even be able to cope with casual gaming, thanks to the upgraded integrated graphics that Intel keeps saying they will be equipped with.