Intel’s New N-Series Chips Replace Pentium & Celeron Lines

Intel’s decision to retire the stalwarts of the budget computing line, namely Pentium and Celeron, have helped usher in a new era of wallet-friendly CPUs. Serving as the backbone of the affordable computing line, the new N-series chips are built to deliver better power and efficiency to serve the consumer and education sectors.

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The new chips introduced at CES will feature the following:

• New Efficient-cores (Gracemont) built on the Intel 7 process technology.
• Up to 28% better application performance and 64% better graphics performance compared to the previous generation chip.
• For the i3 N chips there’s an increase of up to an additional 42% application performance and 56% graphics performance over the regular N Intel processors.
• Expect up to 10-hour HD video playback on laptops with a single charge.
• New AV1 decode, high-resolution display engine and improved IPU and MIPI camera support.
• Intel Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+) and Bluetooth 5.2.
• (LPDDR5, DDR5/DDR4) and storage (UFS/SSD/eMMC) options

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The N-series line is designed for consumers who require budget-friendly chips that offer enough performance to handle their daily productivity tasks. Expect to see more than 50 products this year that utilize the new platform from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Asus.

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