Based on the Bay Trail platform, it is power efficient. Thanks to the specially optimized 22-nanometer low-power process with tri-gate transistors, performance, and energy efficiency have been significantly improved compared to its predecessor. The processor cores are based on the new Silvermont architecture. The increased utilization of the pipeline and many other improvements (optimized branch prediction, increased buffers, enhanced decoders) have increased the performance per clock by about 50 percent compared to the previous generation.