At Intel’s CES 2021 keynote, we got confirmation of its 11th generation Rocket Lake-S chips, which we already knew quite a bit about thanks to the numerous leaks. Those are pinned for a March release – but weirdly, Intel plan to release the next-next generation this year too, named Alder Lake – which unlike previous generations, will be for both desktop and mobile applications.

During the presentation, we were shown a Windows PC running on the new 10nm process, compared to the 14nm found on the current Comet Lake and upcoming Rocket Lake chips. This is a big shake up, with the big.LITTLE design using a number of high-performance and high-efficiency cores depending on the task at hand. In fact, this is the same design as Apple’s new ARM M1 chip, which has already proven to give impressive performance results.

With such a short time between the release of Intel’s 11th generation processors and the subsequent arrival of Alder Lake, it begs the question of whether you should wait if you’re looking to have one of the best gaming PC builds this year?