Competition In The Laptop Processor Market Heats Up
This year brought a better variety of laptop processors than perhaps ever before.
A lot of this is due to the increasingly competitive environment in the semiconductor industry, with AMD putting out new, powerful and efficient processors for different laptop segments. New Arm-based chips are also coming from Qualcomm and Apple.
[Related: Apple’s Next Mac Chips Aim To Clobber Intel On Performance: Report ]
But the incumbent, Intel, is not sitting still, as evident with the launch of its Tiger Lake processors for ultrathin laptops and high-performance CPUs for gaming and content creation laptops that push the clock speeds up to 5.3GHz. The company has also introduced a new version of Core i3 and Core i5 processors that use Intel’s nascent Foveros 3-D packaging technology.
What follows are the 10 hottest laptop processors of 2020.
