Recap: Intel's Alder Lake-P is still very much a mystery at this point, but the company has started shipping the new CPUs to laptop manufacturers looking to incorporate them into their designs. If leaked benchmarks are anything to go by, these new processors might even be able to compete with Apple's M1 Pro and M1 Max chipsets... at least in terms of performance.

Intel Alder Lake-S CPUs brought several new great options to the table for people looking to upgrade their desktops

In context: Microsoft's Arm-based laptops and portable computers first launched in 2016 and have mysteriously run only Qualcomm SoCs ever since. Since Microsoft never announced any official exclusivity deal with Qualcomm, many consumers have wondered why we haven't seen other brands, such as Samsung, develop processors for Windows on Arm machines. Now, it looks like we finally have answers.

According to a new report from XDA Developers, Microsoft does have an exclusivity deal with Qualcomm. The site says this is the

In brief: MediaTek wants back in the high-end mobile SoC game, and its latest Dimensity chipset packs a lot of improvements designed to make it more competitive against Qualcomm and Samsung’s best offerings. The first devices sporting the new chip will arrive in the first half of 2022, so it won’t be long before we’ll see if they are flagship material.

Over the past two years, MediaTek has been trying to break into the high end smartphone space with mobile chipsets that it