9/15/16
The latest Intel® processor family features significant performance improvements for richer and more immersive PC experiences. The new 7th gen Intel® Core™ processors promise to delight consumers with superb entertainment and gaming, captivating graphics, improved responsiveness, longer battery life, and more.
As new devices powered by these processors hit your shelves, it’s crucial your sales team clearly understands the improvements and capabilities in order to share them with shoppers in your stores.
The 7th gen Intel® Core™ processors offer palpable boosts in performance for your customers. This generation of processors improves the previous generation's performance-to-watt ratio by 25 percent, leading them to be 10 times more efficient than 1st gen Intel® Core™ processors1.
Customers can experience up to 12 percent faster performance in their productivity apps2, up to 19 percent faster Web browser performance3, and longer laptop battery life.
Performance boosts in devices powered by 7th gen Intel® Core™ processors go beyond simply faster response times.
Customers will experience:
Sales associates will have plenty of experience improvements to talk about with shoppers, but there will be lots of technically-oriented consumers who want to know about the technical specs of these new processors.
The 7th gen Intel® Core™ processors are built on 14-nanometer technology. Processors are divided between the Y-series and U-series. The main differences between each series are the single core base frequency and the ability of the U-Series to accept DDR4 RAM.
However, both the Y-series and U-series include Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) which enables device designs that achieve the perfect balance between mobility and performance.
Other exciting technologies included are:
Here’s a graphic overview of these series:
Intel OEM partners are currently shipping over 100 new devices powered by the 7th gen Intel® Core™ processors. These will be great options for your customers as we enter the holiday season.
Your associates should sharpen their sales skills and learn about the new 7th gen Intel® Core™ processors and the exciting, beautifully designed devices they power. Newly released Learning activities in the Intel® Retail Edge Program will help with this and more.
Find out more about the Program and how sales associate participation can meaningfully improve customer experiences and increase the number of devices sold in your stores.
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1Performance based on SYSMark 2014-Overall Performance @ Native Resolution.
2As measured by SYSmark* 2014
3As measured by WebXPRT* 2015
4Requires activation and a system with a corporate network connection, an Intel® AMT–enabled chipset, network hardware, and software. For notebooks, Intel AMT may be unavailable or limited over a host OS-based VPN, when connecting wirelessly, on battery power, sleeping, hibernating, or powered off. Results dependent upon hardware, setup, and configuration. For more information, visit Intel® Active Management Technology
5Requires an Intel® Core™ processor, an enabled chipset, Intel® Rapid Storage Technology software, and a properly configured dual drive (HDD + small SSD). Depending on system configuration, your results may vary. Contact your system manufacturer for more information.
6Requires an Intel® HD Audio enabled system. Consult your PC manufacturer for more information. Sound quality will depend on equipment and actual implementation. For more information about Intel HD Audio, refer to Intel® High Definition Audio.
7Intel® Smart Sound Technology (SST) requires the use of an I2S based CODEC for operation. Intel SST cannot be used concurrently with Intel High Definition Audio. Not available on all systems. Consult your PC manufacturer for more information. Sound quality will depend on equipment and actual implementation.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit http://www.intel.com/benchmarks.
