2009, today, and beyond
Intel put out the Intel Atom processor in 2009, with power use low enough to be used in ultraportable netbooks (we all know what happened to that craze, though).
Today, Intel's main consumer processors, the Core i3, i5, and i7, feature multiple cores (as many as six) with power-saving technology that boosts their clock speeds only when the computer actually needs it. These chips are fabricated using a 32nm process, still following Moore's Law.
What's next for Intel? The company has an upcoming technology known as Ivy Bridge that will shrink the manufacturing process to an incredibly-small 22nm, which will supposedly bring a 20% increase in performance.
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