INTEL’S LATEST PROCESSORS currently sit in an odd place, as they’re a weird hybrid of monolithic chip design (boasting those impressive low latencies and power efficiency), while also having characteristics that are not entirely dissimilar to more modular layouts. Let’s cover the bottom level.
P & E cores explained
With the advent of 12th gen, Intel introduced its first incarnation of this multi-architecture processor in the form of Alder Lake. Moving up to the LGA1700 socket, it didn’t only increase the CPU size by doing so, it also reconfigured how the chip operated from the ground up. Namely, it stepped away from a more traditional brute-force core strategy, and opted for a streamlined processor that took advantage of two separate types of processor core, aptly named the P Core (performance core) and E Core
