Intel Launches Powerful Laptop Chips to Reclaim Market Share

The last two laptop central processing unit (CPU) families to come from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) were more focused on efficiency and AI capabilities than raw performance. Intel launched Meteor Lake in late 2023, which moved to a tile-based architecture and used the Intel 4 manufacturing process for the compute tile. Meteor Lake delivered solid efficiency gains and graphics performance, but performance regressed in other areas compared to older chips.Intel followed up Meteor Lake with Lunar Lake in the latter half of 2024. Lunar Lake went all-in on efficiency, taking advantage of an external manufacturing process from TSMC and moving the memory on-chip. Lunar Lake laptops boast impressive battery life, making the chip family the perfect counter to Qualcomm's efficient Arm-based PC chips. Like Meteor Lake, though, Lunar Lake was not focused on raw performance.Intel launched its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs in late 2024. Like Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake outsourced manufacturing to TSMC after switching from the canceled Intel 20A process. Compared to the last-generation Raptor Lake Refresh desktop chips, Arrow Lake chips delivered large gains in energy efficiency and performance across many productivity workloads. Unfortunately, the chips initially exhibited erratic behavior in gaming workloads that led to subpar reviews.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool