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A tiny chip with big battery life ambitions.

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Cheap laptops, the ones with a wheezy fan and a battery that taps out by lunch, have burned me before, which is why I usually stay away from them and advise my friends to do the same.

So, when a leak claims Intel is building a chip just for them, with a power rating of only 6W (compared to 15 to 20W for regular chips), I’m a bit excited, but perhaps even more cautious.

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What does a 6W laptop chip mean for you?

Intel is reportedly working on Moon Lake chips, a new family of entry-level laptop processors with four low-power cores and a 6W base power rating (via Wccftech ).

That 6W figure is the chip’s TDP, or thermal design power. In simpler terms, it indicates how much heat the laptop’s cooling system must handle under a defined operating condition.…