Collaborating with Microsoft is just a part of Intel's plans

Sep 2, 2015 09:00 GMT  ·  By

In an interview given to The Verge, Intel's General Manager Kirk Skaugen, the company's top manager of connected computing at Intel, unveiled how the company built the new Skylake series of CPUs for Windows 10 operating system and its future development.

Being present at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Skaugen managed to talk about Intel's new family of chips and how Intel kept a close collaboration with Microsoft in developing the new central processing unit in tandem with Microsoft's newest operating system. He believes that “This is something that only happens once every decade or so,” blaming the near-perfect perfect synchronicity in the release of Windows 10 and the sixth-gen Core processors, and admits that such perfect overlapping of a new CPU launch and a new OS does not happen very often.

However, Skaugen admits that even if the two products coincided perfectly, the companies have worked together for about four years in a close collaboration so that both products will be 100% compatible when hitting the market.

For instance, Intel's RealSense cameras are made to work fully with Windows Hello face computer unlocking feature. Implemented in Lenovo's latest laptop series as well, Skaugen believes “this will be the most secure software and processor combination ever.”

Intel aims to move on from the PC company label and be part of every mundane electronics out there

Going into even more detail Skaugen believes that what Skylake brings new to how Windows 10 works with the new 6th generation CPUs and sends it cues on when more or less performance is needed. In the past, operating systems had to do it themselves; on Windows 10 it lets the CPU do it instead; and while on previous systems it took 30ms for this operation to take place, now with the new Windows 10 and Skylake, it takes only 1ms.

He also believes that since Microsoft stopped its cycle of building a new OS once every few years, it will be easier from now on for Intel to light up new hardware features, and complement new OS updates much faster. In the end, Skaugen wanted to underline Intel's intention of being part of every electricity consuming machine, and Windows PCs, although they are special, are just one branch among many Intel seeks to be part of. According to him, Intel's vision for the future is this, “if it consumes electricity, it computes; and if it computes, it connects; and if it’s smart and connected, it will be best to have Intel.”