Intel’s ‘Lakefield’ Hybrid CPUs: Where You’ll Find Them, What They Do, and What They Mean for the Future of PCs

            Intel's new ‘Lakefield' processors mark a new chapter for the company, and could signal a huge shift in the way that future PCs are designed and developed. Intel has struggled for several years now, first with a poorly executed plan to migrate from 14nm to 10nm manufacturing, and then with continual shortages of products in the market, leading to price spikes. Intel had its roadmaps set back by many years, and had to fall back on iterative revisions to its 14nm products to fill the gap over the past several generations. Meanwhile, competitor AMD has seen a massive resurgence in the desktop and server markets, and Qualcomm has begun offering chips for laptops. Even Apple just recently announced a shift away from Intel chips in order to develop more versatile devices in the future.