Intel Maxes Out Laptop Power with Core HX CPUs

You’ll hear Intel and laptop manufacturers refer to Intel’s latest chip as a “desktop-class” processor, but the new HX line of Intel’s 12th-gen Core i9, i7 and i5 CPUs are really just the company’s most powerful mobile CPUs to date. They share a lot of characteristics with their most recent fixed-location equivalents. They’re primarily targeted at creatives, though with unlocked and overclockable i9-12900HX and i7-12800HX options, you’ll naturally see them appear in gaming laptops as well, such as the Lenovo Legion 7 models also announced Tuesday.

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