Fudzilla: Intel's 5th Core processor family, codenamed Broadwell, will launch in three lines for the mobile segment. We are talking about upcoming Broadwell 14nm processors that will start appearing in Q4 2014 and will continue to launch trough the first half of 2015.
It's been difficult to gauge just how much better Intel's 5th-gen CPU is over the 4th-gen, until now.
CPU World: Intel this week launched first Braswell systems on a chip for entry-level desktops and notebooks. Based on 14nm technology, Braswell SoCs are powered by new CPU and GPU architectures, and come with higher general processing and graphics performance at the same or lower TDP than the previous generation of entry-level SoCs. Intel currently offers mobile Celeron N3000, N3050, N3150, and Pentium N3700. Celeron N3050, N3150 and Pentium N3700 will be also available in desktop PCs.
Maximum PC: Toshiba today announced that its premium Kirabook 13 i7S1 Touch Ultrabook is now rocking a 5th Generation Intel Core i7-5500U processor based on the Santa Clara chip maker's Broadwell architecture. The new part is a dual-core chip with four threads with a base frequency of 2.4GHz and turbo frequency of 3GHz. It also sports 4MB of cache, Intel HD Graphics 5500, and a 15W TDP.