Intel launches 9th Gen Core mobile processors

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 23, 2019
Updated June 20, 2025
2 min

It’s a big day for Intel as the world’s biggest PC chip maker launches its 9th Gen Intel Core Mobile processors. It is also expanding the family of 9th Gen Intel Core processors for the desktop.

Intel is targeting the chips at the world’s premium PC consumers, including gamers and content creators. Newzoo estimates there are 580 million PC gamers in the world, and the audience for esports has topped 400 million. There are also more than 130 million PC-based content creators and more than 50 million “prosumer” professionals.

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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.