A new report has revealed that the Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake Mobile CPUs might be entering production soon. The news claims that the production for the upcoming chips will begin sometime between Q4 2021 or Q1 2021.
According to a NotebookCheck report, a leaked roadmap has revealed certain information regarding the Alder Lake series of Mobile SKUs. This includes the Alder Lake P and Alder Lake M series. The former has a TDP range between 15W and 43W while the latter will have a 9W TDP. Furthermore, the new Alder Lake P range will take the place of the existing Tiger Lake H35, Tiger Lake H45, and UP3 lineups and will feature configuration up to six Golden Cove (GLC) and eight Gracemont (GRT) cores.
The Alder Lake P chips will also support Thunderbolt 4, PCIe Gen 5, WiFi 6E, along with DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory natively. On the other hand, the Alder Lake M series will replace the Tiger Lake UP4, although, it will be limited to the PCIe Gen 4 but will support Thunderbolt 4 and WiFi 6E alongside LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 memory. Both chips are expected to be paired with team blue’s Xe GT2 or GT3 iGPUs with up to 96 execution units (EUs).
While the exact month in which the production will start is unknown, it is expected to be between the month of November 2021 and March 2022 for the Alder Lake P series, and between January 2022 and April 2022 for the Alder Lake M series. We can expect to hear more about these new chips in the arriving months from Intel, so stay tuned for more updates.
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