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Intel announced its new sixth-generation processors today, called Skylake. Intel says the new processors will offer 10 percent better performance, 30 percent better graphics performance and an extra hour of battery life compared to the previous generation Broadwell chips. Skylake is the “tock” part of Intel’s cadence, so it’s using the same 14-nanometer architecture introduced as a part of Broadwell. The most interesting improvements as part of this generation are in the Intel Core M chips, which are the processors commonly found in ultra-portables like Apple’s new MacBook and the Intel Compute Stick. The first generation of Core M offered disappointing performance, but Intel…

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