Hot on the heels of 11th-gen Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake processors, Big Blue is bringing it all together later this year with the Intel Alder Lake series of processors, based on the high-efficiency big.LITTLE hybrid design pioneered by the British semiconductor firm Arm.
It seems that big.LITTLE is all the rage right now, thanks largely to the huge success of the Apple M1 chip, which replaced Intel’s own silicon in last year’s Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini, and soon to be released in Apple’s new iMac.
Apple is so committed to their new silicon that we’re already hearing rumors about the next-generation Apple MX chip that might be powering Apple’s more powerful 16-inch MacBook Pro later this year.
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