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.
Toshiba's Kira series of Ultrabooks (sometimes called the Kirabook, to our bemusement) have demonstrated since their first 2013 model, that they can do ultra-slim, smart-looking powerful laptops well enough. Yet they've rarely stood out.
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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.
