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Intel Haswell processors for better battery life, performance

Google and Intel introduced three new Chromebooks and a Chromebox today, each running Intel's powerful Haswell processors. The announcement came onstage at Wednesday's Intel Developer Forum keynote in San Francisco, as Intel VP Doug Fisher and Sundar Pichai, the head of Google's Android and Chrome divisions, showed off the new hardware. Fisher and Pichai revealed two new laptops from existing Chrome hardware partners, HP and Acer, and a Chromebook from Toshiba, and a Chromebox from Asus. These devices mark Asus and Toshiba's first foray into Chrome OS hardware. Fisher promised battery life improvements of up to 15 percent and performance jumps as high as 50 percent for Haswell Chrome devices over their Atom-based predecessors.

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