Intel starts shipping mobile Alder Lake-P series chips to manufacturers

Jeet — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:59:21 +0000

A few weeks ago, Intel officially announced its next-generation Alder Lake processors, kicking off the 12th generation of chips from the company. Now, the company is gearing up to launch the mobile version of the same.

Ahead of the launch, Intel has already started shipping them to laptop manufacturers. It was confirmed by the company through Twitter. This indicates that the official launch or announcement shouldn’t be far away.

Based on the information available so far, the Intel Alder Lake-P series include the lower-end models which are said to feature two Golden Cove performance (P) cores, as well as eight Gracemont efficiency (E) cores.

Some higher-end variants of the mobile CPU will reportedly be powered by six P-cores and eight E-cores. It is also being said that the top-end Intel Alder Lake-P chip will come with 14 cores and 20 threads.

Recently, the upcoming Intel Alder Lake-P Core i7-12700H appeared on benchmark which indicated that it to be faster than 45 percent in multi-core performance than the previous generation. It could also outperform AMD‘s flagship processor by 35 percent.

Another benchmark for the Intel Core i7-12700H showed it comfortably on top against Apple Silicon chips as the test revealed Alder Lake-P could be almost 50 percent faster than the newly launched Apple M1 Max chip. The Cinebench R23 benchmark shows Intel chip outperformed the M1 Max by a whopping 49 percent, scoring an impressive 18,501 points.

Qualcomm looks to establish dominance in the laptop market with new chips

Jeet — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 03:33:51 +0000

Qualcomm, one of the leading companies when it comes to chipset for smartphones, is now looking to expand its footprints. The company’s new chief Cristiano Amon says that next year, Qualcomm will have a new chip for laptop makers.

He adds that longtime suppliers like Intel and AMD don’t have products that are as energy-efficient as Apple Silicon-based chips and Qualcomm CEO believes that the company can offer the best chip in the market with help from a team of chip architects who formerly worked on the Apple chip but now work at Qualcomm.

The company is also counting on revenue growth from China to power its core smartphone chip business despite political tensions. The U.S. sanctions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd give Qualcomm an opportunity to generate a lot more revenue.

The chip giant is now looking to push 5G connectivity into laptops and is pairing modems with a powerful central processor unit. Instead of using computing core blueprints from longtime partner ARM, as it now does for smartphones, Qualcomm concluded it needed custom-designed chips if its customers were to rival new laptops from Apple.

Earlier this year, Qualcomm acquired Nuvia for $1.4 billion which was founded by Apple employees who helped design laptop chips for Apple before leaving to form the startup. Amon adds that Qualcom will start selling Nuvia-based laptop chips next year. He adds: “We needed to have the leading performance for a battery-powered device. If Arm, which we’ve had a relationship with for years, eventually develops a CPU that’s better than what we can build ourselves, then we always have the option to license from Arm.”

ARM is currently being acquired by Nvidia for $40 billion but the deal is under scrutiny over national security grounds as well as competition within the industry. Even Qualcomm has objected to the merger of these two companies. However, Nvidia has received public support from MediaTek, Marvell Technology, and Broadcom Corp for the merger deal.

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