Intel’s new 14th-gen Core chip, Meteor Lake, is designed as much for Intel as it is for you. A new disaggregation scheme separates the “processor” into four tiles, cutting power and increasing yields.

Intel’s 11th-gen Core processors are exceeding my low expectations. The company is still on its 14nm process, but a new architecture means its desktop CPUs are maxing out at 8 cores and 16 threads.