


On Macs, Apple's top chip are the M2 series. Those should start shipping later this year, in a series of new ultrathin notebooks. AMD just announced its 7040U-series processors, two of which have its XDNA architecture for AI performance. Those are broken into 28-watt P-series chips for performance and 15-watt U-series for the slimmest designs.

Intel's most recent chips are its 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" chips. Of course, there's always new tech coming down the pipe. These days, Intel tends to use its Evo standard to label its top ultrabooks, and you'll often see the name on sticker badges alongside Core i5 or i7. However, just as many people refer to tissues as Kleenexes or web searching as Googling, the term ultrabook commonly refers to any premium ultraportable laptop, whether it carries Intel’s seal of approval or not. Much of this occurred as the PC world was first catching up to the original MacBook Air. The “ultrabook” moniker was originally coined by Intel in 2012 and used to refer to a set of premium, super-thin laptops that met the chipmaker’s predefined standards.
