The advancement of the Personal Computer (PC) over the last two and a half decades has enabled people to work and play in ways that were previously unimaginable.

Today’s PC buyers continue to seek out exciting new applications that require continued increases in performance and capability of the PC. As such, performance and capability remain key purchase criteria, along with the cost of the actual PCs themselves. In addition, as the cost of energy is starting to increase in some areas around the world, the energy cost associated with running the PC is starting to become an item of interest.

As Intel delivers products and platforms that target the needs of a diverse and expanding PC client market segment, shipping client platforms that deliver the intersection of leading performance, expanded capabilities and energy efficiency. Intel calls this approach Energy Efficient Performance, or EEP.