Intel is planning to bring their new Apollo Lake chipsets to make budget PCs more powerful and efficient. The company announced at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shenzen, China saying that the Apollo Lake chips will make computers slimmer, more efficient and less expensive to produce.

Slash Gear reports that Intel is planning to pair their Apollo Lake chipsets with their newest versions of Atom processors. PC World says that the new Apollo Lake chips will replace the old Braswell chips based on the old Airmont architecture. This technology exists in current low-end Intel devices.

Apollo Lake chips however, are based on the new Goldmont x86 CPU structure. With this, budget Intel devices powered by Intel's chips will make 4K video playback possible via its Gen9 graphics, HEVC hardware decoding and VP9 codecs. This means that PCs and mobile devices including desktops, tablets, notebooks and many others will be thinner, faster, efficient and more affordable.

Digital Trend reports that the Apollo Lake chips will also enable lower power consumption to lengthen battery life. Additionally, the Apollo Lake can also support DDR4, DDR3, LPDDR3, and LPDDR4 RAM. SATA, PCIe x4, and eMMC 5.0 is also possible. Intel will also USB Type-C cables to integrate power and data transfer in one. Intel is expected to distribute the Apollo Lake chips on their Celeron and Pentium-powered computers this year, Tech Week Europe reports.

According to PC Mag, there is a lot of information still missing from Intel's new Apollo Lake chips. It is unknown how much it would cost. However, Intel confirmed that more info about the Apollo Lake technology will be unveiled in the next few months.

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