Intel has been flexing its technology muscles during the annual developer conference (IDF) currently being held in San Francisco. Boss Paul Otellini broad-ranging keynote hinted at creating a new category of notebooks called Ultrabooks, and he further made mention of a few fruits from last year's McAfee purchase.
However, it took until today for the assembled press to see something really new. Mooly Eden, VP of the client PC group, made an all-too-fleeting mention of Intel's Haswell chip architure that's set to debut some time in 2013.
While not delving into any specifics, Eden enthused that "Haswell is working, we have an on-stage PC running multiple applications."
And here it is. There's not much more we can say about the Haswell microarchitecture other than it is based on the same 22nm tri-gate process as upcoming Ivy Bridge. But the move to Haswell should bring with it a significant improvement in the core and graphics - it's an Intel 'tock' after all. We wait for the Core i7 4660K - or some model-numbering system along those lines - to make an appearance at IDF next year.
