From CNET: Intel on Tuesday took to the stage at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, to unveil its newest range of processors, dubbed the X-Series. With its eyes set on content creators, overclockers and pro gamers (plenty of whom are crowding the Computex halls this week), Intel is pulling out all the superlatives it can muster to talk up the "extreme" processing power it's offering.
But extreme doesn't come cheap.
As the world waits for Intel's eighth-generation processors, the company says its next iteration of seventh-gen chips will offer "extreme enthusiasts" greater speeds and less downtime with its most powerful range of processors to date.
"Although many equate enthusiasts solely with gamers -- and they are certainly a vital part of the community -- it also includes content creators, which in this immersive, data-driven world is a rapidly growing percentage of the population," Gregory Bryant, general manager of Intel's client-computing group, said in a statement Tuesday.
These aren't the kind of processors that are going to power your next family PC, and that's why the top-of-the-line chip will set you back a cool $2K. The X-Series is built for a niche market. Sure, we've seen updates to processors for laptops and PCs already this year from Intel, but we didn't get anything meaningfully faster than what we already had.
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