Gaming: Rumours Are Swirling Once Again Around Intel Ditching Its Hybrid...

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Those familiar with Intel's modern processor lines will also be familiar with the idea of Performance and Efficient cores. The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, for example, is technically a 24-core chip, with eight of those cores being high-powered Performance versions for heavy processing duties, supported by 16 Efficient versions for low-priority tasks.

Intel's processors have been designed around this core segmentation architecture since Alder Lake, more commonly referred to as its 12th generation chips. However, rumours are swirling once again that Intel may be about to make a major switch up towards a "unified core" design, banishing its hybrid P-core, E-core, and LP-E core chip architectures to the history books (via Fudzilla).

Source: PC Gamer