Big Cores, Little Cores: Intel’s Alder Lake-S Hybrid Processor Leaked In New Photo

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VideoCardz has shared a photo of the first desktop processor built on Intel’s 10 nm Enhanced SuperFin technology, Alder Lake-S. While the move from 14 nm is celebratory in itself, what really makes this family of chips special is a unique shift in engineering.



Instead of a single type of core, Alder Lake-S will blend larger, higher-performance cores (Golden Cove) with smaller, more efficient ones (Gracemont). (Intel gave us a taste of its hybrid technology with this summer’s Lakefield release, but those have been relegated to notebooks such as Samsung’s Galaxy Book S.)



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