Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, January 12th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough. Today

Intel's new flagship chips are here,

Lenova's new laptop lineup is here,

Walmart once in on the FinTech startup game,

GM is spinning off a new electric delivery truck startup.

And I know foldable phones haven't exactly taken over the world,

but could I interest you in a rollable phone?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Let's hit some CES news. Intel is a company that always looks to make a big splash at CES.

Frankly, they could use a splash at the moment.

So they took this week as the opportunity to unveil their new flagship

11th gen processors, the 14 nanometer Rocket Lake Core I 9 11,900k.

This will be their main consumer processor this year

coming in Q1 and promising up to 50% better integrated graphics performance, quoting an ant-tech.

Spending five generations on the same base micro architecture is a long time.

Progress and excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node, adding

cores, and extracting every drop of frequency. But at some point, the base design becomes

the bottleneck and it's time to move on.

Intel's enthusiast Desktop Market has been waiting for an update for a couple of generations

and while the new 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake doesn't migrate off the 14 nanometer process node. We are at least getting a new

micro architecture that stands to deliver, according to Intel, a 19% IPC improvement. Promising

a Q1 launch, Intel lifted the lid a little on its next consumer

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