Intel’s next-gen processors have begun shipping, which means we should start seeing notebooks and other computers powered by the 7th-gen Intel Core series processors soon. Code-named “Kaby Lake,” the new chips will be manufactured using a 14nm process, much like the 5th and 6th-gen “Broadwell” and “Skylake” processors before them, but Intel says the new […]
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Intel’s Tick-Tock chip upgrade strategy now looks more like Tick-Tock-Tock
For the past decade, Intel has used a “Tick-Tock” strategy for producing new processors. For every “tick,” Intel would would produce a new chip using a new lithographic process (the move from 32nm to 22nm to 14nm, for example). Then the company’s next chip would be a “tock,” which means it would use the same […]