Intel’s ditching the ‘i’ in ‘Core i5/i7/i9’ and will stop calling out chip generations
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Intel’s ditching the ‘i’ in ‘Core i5/i7/i9’ and will stop calling out chip generations
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To be introduced with next-gen Meteor Lake chips, which Intel calls an "inflection point for design, manufacturing, and architecture."
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Isn’t there a speculation that Intel CPUS are actually RISC chips with microcode emulating x86?

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It’s not speculation, it’s verified fact ever since the Pentium 6 in the mid-90’s. See eg this

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Ah my bad, I did a quick search before commenting and couldn’t find anything concrete.

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