Intel announced its Apollo Lake platform, successor of the Cherryview platform, aimed at affordable all-in-ones, miniature PCs, hybrid devices, notebooks and tablet PCs at the IDF in Shenzhen last week. Based on 14 nm process technology, it will feature a new x86 microarchitecture named Goldmont that promises improved CPU performance, as well as a new graphics core that features Intel’s ninth-generation architecture (Gen9) currently used in Skylake processors for hardware-accelerated 4K video playback from hardware decoding of HEVC and VP9 codecs. Continue reading “Intel Apollo Lake platform for affordable notebooks and tablet PCs announced”