The recently announced Intel Silvermont microarchitecture was designed and co-optimized with Intel’s 22nm SoC process using revolutionary 3-D Tri-gate transistors. By taking advantage of this industry-leading technology, Intel is able to provide a significant performance increase and improved energy efficiency to address low-power requirements in market segments ranging from Smartphones to data centers.

“The Silvermont microarchitecture is a testimony of our design and process technology co-optimization capabilities. By leveraging our strengths in microarchitecture development and leading-edge process technology, we delivered a technology package that enables significantly improved performance and power efficiency – all while delivering higher frequencies. We’re proud of this accomplishment and believe that Silvermont will offer a strong and flexible foundation for a range of new, low-power Intel SoCs,” said Chacko.

Intel’s quad-core “Bay Trail” SoC is scheduled for holiday 2013 tablets and will more than double the compute performance capability of Intel’s current-generation tablet offering1. Due to the flexibility of Silvermont, variants of the “Bay Trail” platform will also be used in market segments including entry laptop and desktop computers in innovative form factors. The "Bay Trail" platform is already up and running on Windows* and Android* and will help enable new experiences in designs as thin as 8mm that have all-day battery life and weeks of standby. Bay Trail also represents the first time Intel is offering its customers a mobile platform solution that is flexible with regard to operating system, and the company will provide the same great Intel tablet performance and high-resolution graphics, with cost savings to consumers.

Intel’s “Merrifield” is scheduled for shipping to customers by the end of this year. It will enable increased performance and battery life over current-generation products1 and will bring support for context aware and personal services, ultra-fast connections for Web streaming and increased data, device and privacy protection.

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