Intel unveiled the company's new 14nm manufacturing technology that the company believes will change the Ultrabook and tablet industry.
Intel's 14nm technology will be known by the name of Broadwell, which will give rise to a new generation of tech products from tablet computers to processors for servers.
Within notebooks and tablet computers, Broadwell will be known as Core M.
Intel is expected to launch the first products using Core M and the Broadwell generation of devices at the IFA 2014 conference in Berlin, Germany this coming September.
According to a spokeswoman of Intel, the Core M will begin shipping within 2014, with devices using the new technology up for sale by the end of the year.
Broadwell chips for desktop computers will subsequently follow, the spokeswoman added.
The Broadwell technology is the result of improvements in the manufacturing process, and not a new design for chips. The selling point of the new technology is the significant reduction in power requirements. Through shrinking the process technology, Intel can either improve performance while maintaining the same consumption of power, or maintain performance while reducing the consumption of power.
For notebooks, Intel has chosen the second option. The Broadwell chips will provide the same performance that is currently offered by the Haswell chips, which are found in today's Core chips. However, the new Broadwell notebooks will have much lower power requirements.
Stephen Jourdan, Broadwell's chief architect, said that Broadwell's capabilities will allow for "radically different" physical form factors for devices, such as tablet computers as thin as eight millimeters, and maybe even thinner.
Intel has already showcased one such device at the Computex conference in Taiwan, namely the Llama Mountain. The tablet has a 12.5-inch screen but is only 7.2mm thick and weighs only 670 grams.
According to Jourdan, tablet computers using Broadwell chips will only need three to five watts of power, as the new chips will allow the device to be manufactured without the need for a cooling fan.
While the new technology does not mean that all Broadwell devices will be fanless, OEMs will be given the opportunity to design and manufacture ultrathin devices with the added possibility of not needing fans, which would be a first for the Core processor platform.
Intel will be manufacturing the Broadwell chips in Oregon and Arizona. A third facility for the manufacturing of the chips will be located in Ireland and will commence operations in 2015.
