22 PCWorld JUNE 2022NEWS
IMAGE: INTELIntel propels laptops to 16 cores
with ferocious Core HX laptop CPUs
Move over, Core i9-12900HK. Intel is adapting its desktop processor to create the Core
i9-12950HX. BY MARK HACHMANI
ntel has announced the 12th-gen Alder
Lake-HX (12th-gen Core HX) processor
series, splitting the difference between
an extreme gaming processor and one
designed for workstations and content
creation. The flagship, the Core i9-12950HX,
is the company’s first 16-core chip designed
for laptops and will run as fast as 5GHz across
its eight performance cores and eight
efficiency cores.If the product designation sounds familiar,
it should. AMD launched its own Ryzen
5900HX (fave.co/3l6kG9H) at CES in January,
which they called the “world’s best processor
for gamers.” While Intel isn’t making a similar
claim, the company is saying you’ll see this
chip in the most extreme gaming laptops as
part of Intel’s H-series chips for enthusiasts.
Daniel Rogers, senior director of mobile
product marketing within Intel’s Client