Intel’s Alder Lake-S CPUs Will Reportedly Feature a Mix of Normal-Sized and Smaller-Sized Cores

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Intel may have found a way to match AMD in the core count arena.



An image posted on China’s PTT BBS suggests that Intel’s Alder Lake-S chips (Tiger Lake’s successor) could utilize two different types of cores – “big” cores and “small” cores.



Details are scant aside from proposed core counts and power usage (one SKU could feature 16 cores and a 125 W TDP), but this could be Intel’s version of ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, which leverages standard cores with weaker ones to tame battery usage in mobile devices.

Alder Lake-S reportedly targets mainstream, high-power desktops, however, so the arrangement seems a little peculiar. Some are...

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[Elf_Boy]

I dont see smaller cores as bad depending on the code/system use.

If Windows is aware and can leverage the resources correctly this could be a big win for Intel taking chiplets up a level.

With a few asic type cores, tensor for AI, enhanced fpu, what have you on top of a solid 4/8 standard cores this could be the next way to get Moore back on track. Well in terms of function anywats.

Getting code up to speed using it a whole nother story.

 

[Grimlakin]

Sounds like they are taking a page out of the playbook of samsung and other mobile chip manufacturers. The whole big chip/small chip dance has been done for over 5 years in that market.