Microsoft also shared the love with perennial Intel rival AMD, picking its mobile Ryzen chip for the 15-inch Surface Laptop 3. Indeed, two new Surface designs rely on Intel chips - the Ice Lake chip for premium laptops this year, like the 13-inch Surface Laptop 3, and the Lakefield chip for next year's more exotic dual-screen Surface Neo that's something like a folding tablet. Microsoft is hardly abandoning Intel, its business partner for decades.

That older model Microsoft laptop uses an Intel eighth-generation Core processor. ,' Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay said at the event. 'This product has three times more performance per watt than the And Microsoft preferred to focus on efficiency, not raw performance, when comparing the Surface Pro X to its Intel-powered Surface Pro 6. The graphics performance is twice that of the eighth-generation Intel Core processor from two years ago or of last year's Qualcomm 850 smartphone chip, Qualcomm said. The companies didn't share many performance specifics, though.

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