Intel wants chip customers to feel the need for speed again

NEW YORK: Intel Corp is trying to sell its new laptop chips in an old way - by emphasising their speed. The world’s biggest chipmaker is touting the clock speed of its new H line of processors, citing their ability to process data at more than five gigahertz, or five billion cycles a second.

“Frequency is the thing we’ve optimized for, ” said Fredrik Hamberger, an Intel general manager. “These are the first mobile processors to break five gigahertz.”