Intel propels laptops to 16 cores with ferocious Core HX laptop CPUs
Jun 07, 2022
3 minutes
BY MARK HACHMAN
Intel has announced the 12th-gen Alder Lake-HX (12th-gen Core HX) processor series, splitting the difference between an extreme gaming processor and one designed for workstations and content creation. The flagship, the Core i9-12950HX, is the company’s first 16-core chip designed for laptops and will run as fast as 5GHz across its eight performance cores and eight efficiency cores.
If the product designation sounds familiar, it should. AMD launched its own at CES in January, which they called the “world’s best processor for gamers.” While Intel
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