PCWorld: Intel has just started shipping some of its fastest laptop chips to date, meaning new powerful laptops should soon be on the market. The new chips include Core i7 Skylake processors, as well as mobile Xeon chips that are headed for portable workstations used by engineers.
Intel shipped the first laptop Skylake chips last year, but they were for mainstream and entry-level laptops. These new chips, just added to Intel’s price list, are aimed at the high end.
Last Friday, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told CNBC he thinks the chip shortage will last into 2024.
The Radeon RX 6500M outperforms the Intel Arc A370M in AMD benchmarks. This week, Intel unveiled its Arc laptop GPUs, which featured the A370M from the Arc 3
AMD has a larger market cap than Intel for the first time in history. Since its initial Zen architecture in 2017, AMD's fortunes have improved dramatically.
And I just bought my laptop not too long ago, no Skylake for me since I didnt buy a low end laptop. Either way the CPU that came with the machine is more than sufficient for my day to day stuff.