10th Gen Intel Core H-Series processors are hitting the market in laptops in April.
10th Gen Intel Core H-Series processors are hitting the market in laptops in April.
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Intel launches 10th Gen Core H-Series laptop processors at up to 5.3GHz

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Intel has launched its first laptop processors, the 10th Gen Core H-Series, that break the 5GHz barrier with speeds that range from 2.3GHz to 5.3GHz. It is targeting gamers and content creators — or those who both play games and upload videos to YouTube — at the same time.

The new Intel Core i9-10980HK processor is the high end of the family, with speeds ranging from 2.4GHz to 5.3GHz. It can run 16 threads across eight cores and is unlocked for overclocking. That’s pretty beastly for a mobile processor, and they’re Intel’s answer to Advanced Micro Devices’ Ryzen 4000 mobile processors.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.