Many of us were excited by Apple's switch to Intel Core Duo processors, and even more of us were surprised when Intel bumped its mobility chip up to the new Core 2 Duo in the months that followed.

Apple did an interesting thing when it revealed its new M4 iPad Pro: of the four storage options available, the 1TB and 2TB models come with an M4 chip with 10 CPU cores. The lower-priced 256GB and ...