Intel’s 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” Processors Will Reportedly Be Announced in September

[Tsing]

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Intel will reportedly announce its 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” processors in the fall of 2021. The rumor comes from Taiwanese enthusiast site Uniko’s Hardware, which shared a tweet alluding to a September unveiling for the CPUs and their associated chipset, the 600 Series.



As we noted in yesterday’s article related to Intel’s 7-nanometer manufacturing plans, Alder Lake-S marks a significant departure from the company’s traditional Core processors in that they will leverage a mixture of high-performance and high-efficiency cores. The exact advantages of this special brew will be revealed in time, but what we can say right...

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[Brian_B]

They haven’t even released Gen 11 yet?
Not that there has been a huge difference since .... Gen 6? But there is usually at least a year between releases

 

[Denpepe]

They haven’t even released Gen 11 yet?
Not that there has been a huge difference since .... Gen 6? But there is usually at least a year between releases

Announce does not mean launch, they may need a little more time to convince people of the pro's and cons of these new types of CPU's.

For laptops I see some real advantages with this approach, for desktop that's another thing, I don't realy want to sacrifice real cores for light duty ones, sure if they can do something like 8 high performance and 4 high efficiency it may work out, guess we will see what happens.