

It was mid-2015 and the chipmaker's then new and very cutting edge 14nm process was a big deal, we just didn’t expect that they’d still be relying on it 6 years later with their 11th-gen Core series processors.

10th-gen, but why? You would be forgiven if you had no idea Intel even had a 5th generation mainstream desktop processor range, because it consisted of only two socketed parts, and neither of them were on sale for particularly long, despite being Intel’s most interesting CPUs in years.īroadwell was kind of a big deal as it ushered in Intel’s now infamous 14nm process.
