Hardware · May 23
Intel's Wildcat Lake Shows How Modern Processors Really Work
The new Core 7 360 isn't just another chip launch, it's a masterclass in balancing silicon real estate, power budgets, and performance trade-offs
- Modern processor design balances CPU and GPU core counts based on silicon area, power, and thermal constraints rather than maximizing raw numbers
- Integrated CPU-GPU architectures require sophisticated power management to dynamically allocate resources between different processing units