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Mobile Wars
Two new generations of chips, two approaches
It’s Team Red vs Team Blue in the laptop space.
© AMD, INTEL
BOTH AMD AND INTEL have launched batches of new laptop chips into a highly competitive market. Intel has a whole basket of new Alder Lake silicon, which it divides into enthusiast, performance, and ultra-portable categories, corresponding to H, P, and U-series naming.
The 12th generation H chips consume a base power of 45W, and there are eight new models, from the Core i9-12900H which has 14 cores (six performance, eight efficiency) and a 5GHz clock. Below that are two slower versions, the i7-12800 and i7-12700, plus the i7-12650 that loses four efficiency cores.