Samsung Galaxy Book S goes on sale with Intel’s new hybrid chip that could pave the way for future CPUs – TechRadar

Samsungs refreshed Galaxy Book S laptop is now on sale, with a major change in that it ditches the previous models Snapdragon 8cx for an Intel Lakefield CPU with Hybrid Technology.
To be precise, the Galaxy Book S is powered by an Intel Core i5-L16G7, and as a hybrid processor this uses a combination of four low-power cores, plus a fifth faster core, in much the same vein as ARMs big.LITTLE architecture.
The idea is that combining a single full-fat core with a quartet of smaller cores will giv…

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