Intel has just launched its 12th generation of CPUs during its virtual Architecture Day conference. In this event, the company 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 expected to launch within the next few months. It is 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 the inclusion of both high performance and low performance cores, which is common on mobile processors like smartphone SoCs. During the event, the company also talked about its highly anticipated gaming GPUs, with the first generation being codenamed “Alchemist” that will launch in early 2022 and will be manufactured by TSMC.
Furthermore, the 12th Gen chipsets arrives after the Lakefield CPUs that saw a limited release. The high powered cores will 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 based on the tech giant’s “Gracemont” architecture and the P Cores are based on the “Golden Clove.” Notably, the former aims to offer efficiency and will target multi threaded performance across a large number of individual cores. On the other hand, the latter are built for speed and low latency.
Intel claims that the P Cores are its highest performance cores that it has ever made while this new generation also supports Advanced Matrix Extensions for accelerating deep learning training and inference. The company adds that both P and E Cores are highly scalable and that the new CPUs will be able to handle 100GBps of compute fabric bandwidth per P core or per cluster of four E cores. The Alder Lake CPUs will be manufactured on the new Intel 7 process, which is a rebranded version of its 10nm Enhanced SuperFIN Process that will supports DDR5 4800, LPDDR5 5200, DDR4 3200 and LPDDR4X 4266 RAMs, along with PCIe storage, Thunderbolt 4 ports, and Wi-Fi 6E.
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