Intel's new Skylake chips will allow more flavors of the new MacBook

PCs are not dead. In fact, if you talk to Intel — which supplies the vast majority of today's PC processors — they are absolutely resurgent. Now the company is focusing on delivering more power to the place users compute most — in mobile computers.

Intel announced on Tuesday that — as part of its latest line of Core processors, the 14-nanometer sixth-generation Skylake chips — the company will create three different flavors for the Core M CPU found in many of today's convertibles and ultra-portables, including the newest ultra-thin MacBook.

It's also bringing the high-end Xeon chip to business notebooks. Read more...