Chips!
Theo Boshoff
At a press event recently, chip maker Intel and some of their technology vendor partners got together in Soweto to celebrate the official arrival of Intel's new family of
Core i-series processors.

These chips are based on the company's 32nanometer technology - think microscopic - enabling Intel to make smaller chips and add more functionality at lower prices, all at the same time. The Core i-series chips are in three categories, low-end, intermediate and high-end, called Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7, respectively.

The new chips promise increased performance speeds, and at the press event, it was demonstrated that a high definition photo (of some fancy high-speed, unaffordable motorbike) opened 30% faster than with a computer featuring Intel's previous Core 2 Duo processor.
   
Intel's country manager Videsha Proothveerajh spoke of all the advantages of the new chipsets, which include increased graphics abilities, multitasking, sound and much more.

These new processors also feature Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading technology, which you can read more about in the April/May issue of Digital Life magazine.