Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, at Intel Innovate.
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, at Intel Innovate.
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Intel unveils its fastest desktop processor 13th Gen Core

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Intel unveiled its 13th Gen Core desktop processor family, formerly codenamed Raptor Lake, with its new processor the Intel Core i9 13900K. It’s the fastest desktop processor ever built, said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.

He made the announcement at the Intel Innovate event in San Jose, California. The new desktop CPUs will start shipping on October 20, with the Core i9 13900K coming in at $589. It comes just as Advanced Micro Devices launched Ryzen 7000 processors today.

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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.