James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

As such, the decline of quad-core CPUs reflects real adoption patterns across a very large and diverse user base. The rise of six-core processors has been central to this shift. Intel and AMD both ...