Intel Says New Laptop Chips Will Extend Computer Battery Life (yahoo.com)
(Monday January 06, 2025 @05:20PM (msmash)
from the for-what-it's-worth dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1830247/intel-says-new-laptop-chips-will-extend-computer-battery-life
- Source link: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-says-laptop-chips-extend-140000340.html
Intel, which has been fending off mounting competition in notebook processors, says a new range of chips will [1]help enable the longest battery life available in laptops . From a report:
> New computers based on the latest version of its Core Ultra processors will go on sale starting this month, the company said Monday at CES, an annual consumer electronics show.
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> Intel was for decades the world's largest chipmaker thanks to its dominance of the computer processor market. Production technology stumbles and slow product introductions have opened the door to both long-time rivals and firms just entering the space. The company's board last month ousted its chief executive officer, citing the need to improve its offerings.
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> The new chips, intended for corporate PCs and high-end consumer devices, are aimed at boosting performance in two areas the company considers key selling points: battery life and the ability to run artificial intelligence functions. According to Intel, an HP laptop that uses one of the new processors can run Microsoft's Teams software for as long as 10.5 hours on a single charge. It can go 20.3 hours between charges when the user is running Microsoft's cloud-based 365 suite, Intel added. By comparison, Intel says a Dell device using a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor can last as long as 9.2 hours and 18.5 hours, respectively, under those conditions.
[1] https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-says-laptop-chips-extend-140000340.html
> New computers based on the latest version of its Core Ultra processors will go on sale starting this month, the company said Monday at CES, an annual consumer electronics show.
>
> Intel was for decades the world's largest chipmaker thanks to its dominance of the computer processor market. Production technology stumbles and slow product introductions have opened the door to both long-time rivals and firms just entering the space. The company's board last month ousted its chief executive officer, citing the need to improve its offerings.
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> The new chips, intended for corporate PCs and high-end consumer devices, are aimed at boosting performance in two areas the company considers key selling points: battery life and the ability to run artificial intelligence functions. According to Intel, an HP laptop that uses one of the new processors can run Microsoft's Teams software for as long as 10.5 hours on a single charge. It can go 20.3 hours between charges when the user is running Microsoft's cloud-based 365 suite, Intel added. By comparison, Intel says a Dell device using a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor can last as long as 9.2 hours and 18.5 hours, respectively, under those conditions.
[1] https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-says-laptop-chips-extend-140000340.html
Agreed (Score:4, Interesting)
by backslashdot ( 95548 )
Get a laptop with a new Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm for extended battery life.
10h when using Teams but 20h when using MS Office (Score:3)
by sanf780 ( 4055211 )
I fear there is something wrong here, and has little to do with Intel and more with Microsoft. You tend to run MS Teams as a background service, and it should have little effect on battery life. Nobody should spend over 2 hours per day in meetings!
Re: (Score:2)
by MachineShedFred ( 621896 )
It's more interesting that merely running an instant messaging app whacks half the battery life of the laptop.
Can someone fire up Slack and do the same test on the same hardware please? I wonder what we'll learn...
Office 365 (Score:3)
by jpellino ( 202698 )
Which means 20 hrs of web surfing. Got it.
Great news... still no Lx on Snapdragon (Score:2)
by Lavandera ( 7308312 )
Let's see who will be first:
Intel with better CPUs or Qualcomm with Linux support...
I'd not count Intel out just yet (Score:1, Flamebait)
They still have a lot of expertise and solid fabs. They still run most of my computers. However, MS on ARM has finally hit its stride. Too bad linux for desktops is still miserable for all but linux fanatics. Chrome isn't a real OS. Apple has their tax and no touchscreen laptops. So MS is still the way to go, and Snapdragon gaming isn't up to snuff.
x86 it is!
Re:I'd not count Intel out just yet (Score:5, Informative)
I would respectfully disagree. Ubuntu, SuSE, and Red Hat all have desktop UIs which are decently usable, well enough that I didn't have any pain points switching back and forth between it and Windows. One may not be running Microsoft Office, but for pretty much everything I was doing at a previous job, there was nothing I couldn't do under Linux that I could under Windows, except maybe run SolidWorks or other CAD stuff, which was shoved into a VM and worked well enough. It would be nice if they supported Linux directly.
The only thing stopping mainstream adoption of Linux is app makers not writing for the platform. The UI has come a long way since the days where one built their .fvwmrc and .mwmrc files by hand.
Re: (Score:3)
> there was nothing I couldn't do under Linux that I could under Windows, except maybe run SolidWorks or other CAD stuff, which was shoved into a VM and worked well enough. It would be nice if they supported Linux directly.
Fun fact: SolidWorks was created precisely because the founder was annoyed that all the good CAD software was for UNIX at the time and not Windows. Funded by his money from the MIT Blackjack team.
Re: (Score:2)
AMD is the one really putting the hurt on Intel. And funnily, to stay in the game, Intel has joined AMD in using TSMC's fabs. Intel's fabs must be close to idle right now.
Re: (Score:2)
> Apple has their tax
Not exactly true any longer. $599 for a M4 MacMini with impressive geekbench scores.