Intel has just launched its 12th generation of CPUs during its virtual Architecture Day conference. during this event, the corporate had also announced several new products for both consumers and businesses.
The American chip maker’s latest generation of processors arrive with the codename “Alder Lake,” which is predicted to launch within subsequent few months. it’s also expected to first arrive for desktop PCs before being made available in mobile platforms like laptops. A notably change with the new Intel 12th Gen Core processors is that the inclusion of both high performance and low performance cores, which is common on mobile processors like smartphone SoCs. During the event, the corporate also talked about its highly anticipated gaming GPUs, with the primary generation being codenamed “Alchemist” which will launch in early 2022 and can be manufactured by TSMC.
Furthermore, the 12th Gen chipsets arrives after the Lakefield CPUs that saw a limited release. The high powered cores are going to be called Performance Cores while the low powered ones are dubbed as Efficiency Cores (P Cores and E Cores in short). The E Cores are supported the tech giant’s “Gracemont” architecture and therefore the P Cores are supported the “Golden Clove.” Notably, the previous aims to supply efficiency and can target multi threaded performance across an outsized number of individual cores. On the opposite hand, the latter are built for speed and low latency.
Intel claims that the P Cores are its highest performance cores that it’s ever made while this new generation also supports Advanced Matrix Extensions for accelerating deep learning training and inference. the corporate adds that both P and E Cores are highly scalable which the new CPUs are going to be ready to handle 100GBps of compute fabric bandwidth per P core or per cluster of 4 E cores. The Alder Lake CPUs are going to be manufactured on the new Intel 7 process, which may be a rebranded version of its 10nm Enhanced SuperFIN Process which will supports DDR5 4800, LPDDR5 5200, DDR4 3200 and LPDDR4X 4266 RAMs, along side PCIe storage, Thunderbolt 4 ports, and Wi-Fi 6E.