Upcoming high end PCs

Thanks to latest innovations , consumers will be introduced to even less energy hungry and powerful processors in 2014.  To boost the PC platform, we will also see durable SSDs, larger hard disks and a new memory standard.

Both the big CPU manufacturers are launching chips that compute faster and consume less power. AMD has taken the first step: in addition to the new Opteron processors, which are based on the power-saving ARM architecture A57 , CPUs from the Kaveri generation will be available for notebooks and PCs, starting 2014 – with an increased output of 30 percent per cycle.

 Intel will start with a Haswell Refresh and the 9-series chipset with SATA Express. This interface for hard drives allows a speed of 12 Gbps – more than thrice as that of the current SATA 6G. This works well even for the fastest SSDs. 2014 will also bring in the first controllers for the Turbo USB 3.1.

The Broadwell generation of processors   with smaller transistors will hit the shelves in the second half of the new year: the size has shrunk from 22 to 14nanometres. According to Intel, this would also reduce power consumption by 30 percent but still has the same performance level. Notebooks with 15 hours of battery runtime and more will become a norm. To start with, Broadwell will be available as a mobile variant with an integrated graphics chip that performs well enough for installing a gesture control à la Kinect in the new Ultrabooks by using a stereoscopic camera. The most economical Broadwell variant works well even without fans although it computes considerably faster than the latest mobile chips used in smartphones and tablets.

With the Haswell-E,   Intel showcases the high-performance variant of the latest CPU generation. The eight core model will lead the Performance Benchmarks, especially since Haswell-E also makes use of the next RAM generation DDR4.