Intel Core i9-11900K & Core i5-11600K
Intel Core i9-11900K: $889, Intel Core i9-11600K: $419 | www.intel.com
It’s hard to imagine that every generation of Intel desktop processor released since August 2015 is based on the Skylake architecture. Processors since that era, up to and including the i9-10900K all used the successful Skylake building blocks.
That makes Intel’s new Rocket Lake 11th generation a hugely significant family of CPUs. It represents the company’s first architectural redesign in almost six years.
Intel’s struggles with 10nm manufacturing have been well documented over the last few years, yet here we are in 2021 still talking about it. At least there’s light at the end of the tunnel. 10nm is ramping quickly, though it’s still not ready for
