Intel Unveils New Chip Design It Says Will Bring More Than Speed
Intel's Skylake Chip Targets Speed, PC Sales Boost
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Intel Corp. for decades has been rolling out a new chip design every 12 months or so, adding processing power that historically helped persuade consumers to trade in their personal computers for newer, faster machines.
This year’s Skylake redesign needs to do much more than that. Its recent predecessors have failed to woo enough buyers to halt an unprecedented four-year slide in PC sales as Internet usage shifts to smartphones and tablets that don’t use Intel processors. The world’s largest chipmaker is showing off the new chips at the IFA consumer-electronics trade show in Berlin on Wednesday.