Intel is attacking a lot of different markets in the next couple of years.

Intel takes the lid off its biggest chip designs for the coming years

Intel has tens of thousands of chip designers, and they’ve been busy designing new chips that the computer chip giant hopes can bring it back into a leadership position.

The Santa Clara, California-based Intel’s top chip architects — as well as CEO Pat Gelsinger — touted the designs at Intel Architecture Day 2021 in the hopes of instilling confidence in its leadership of the basic PC computing platform, the x86 architecture. Intel has had a hard time in the past few years with both manufacturing delays and weaker designs compared to rival Advanced Micro Devices. Intel has lost market share to AMD, and that’s why Gelsinger was brought back to run the company in February.

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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.