Intel's New PC Chips Solve Its Biggest Problem

The new Arrow Lake chips are far more energy efficient than their predecessors.Chip-giant Intel (INTC -1.02%) has managed to keep pace with rival AMD on raw performance in the PC central processing unit (CPU) market over the past few years, but that feat came at a cost. Intel's previous three generations of desktop PC processors -- Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh -- were all built on the Intel 7 manufacturing process.Intel 7 is derived from the company's 10-nanometer (nm) process, which was ...