By: Craig Kennedy
Lucky Number 13 for Intel—Intel Is Back on Top
Intel made a series of announcements today at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas that positioned it back squarely as a leader in processor performance.
They announced its 13th Generation flagship laptop processor, confirming rumors leaked last week of its specs and performance benchmarks.
Intel’s Flagship HX Laptop Processor
Intel officially announced its 13th Generation Core i9-13980HX laptop processor with 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores.
This is a total of 24 cores / 32 threads and it supports up to 128GB memory.
Its 8 performance cores run at 2.2GHz and can burst up to a max turbo speed of 5.6GHz.
This puts its performance on par with high end desktops and at the top of laptop processors.
In addition, they said the company will introduce 9 chips in its HX series this year, three each within its i5, i7, and i9 chip families.
These chips consume a base power of 55W with a max of 157W and are designed for high end laptops in the $2,000+ price range.
The company is expecting to see its HX chips within its partner’s lineups in high-end laptops by Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo, MSI, and more throughout 2023.
More Updated Processors for Mere Mortals
Intel also announced 23 new chip designs for its existing H, P, and U series processors.
These chips are more evolutionary with respect to performance with more modest improvements compared to the HX design.
These new chips will provide much improved connectivity support compared to their predecessors with up to four Thunderbolt 4 connections including DisplayPort 2.1, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2.
Movidius—Computer Vision AI
Select designs based on the 13th Gen Intel Core processors will also include Intel’s Movidius.
Their vision processing unit (VPU) designed to offload the CPU and GPU for vision processing tasks.
Movidius, co-engineered with Microsoft, provides consistent AI video processing for all apps.
It uses the integrated camera with features like high quality background blur, eye contact, and automatic framing for collaboration and streaming applications.
Bottom Line
Intel is back to pushing the boundaries on laptop chip performance by introducing the first ever 24 core processor for a laptop.
Though designed for gaming, these new chips are redefining what is capable of being accomplished by laptop computers.
This blog is a part of the Digital Operations blog series by Aragon Research’s Sr. Director of Research, Craig Kennedy.
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