11th-gen Intel Core chips promise boost to desktop PC performance
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11th-gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named Rocket Lake-S) promise increased performance for desktop PCs (ILLUSTRATION: Handout).
The past year or so hasn’t been great for Intel if you’re thinking of PC chips – its smaller rival AMD stole much of its thunder with more powerful Ryzen chips as the market leader struggled to find a response. Well, today, Intel has unveiled its new 11th-gen Core S-series desktop processors.
More well known by the codename Rocket Lake-S, the new chips are built on a processor architecture called Cypress Cove. This is big because it finally replaces the previous Skylake architecture that has been around for the past five years – dinosaur-age in the chip industry.