New leaks have surfaced regarding Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop CPUs. The leaks show new features and the various configurations expected from the processor lineup. A list leak by Coelacanth-dream shows a list of device IDs that point to several Alder Lake CPU configurations.
This will be the first time in Intel’s history that desktop processors will be based on the 10nm process node. This will mark the end for the 14nm process which has been around since 2015. Videocardz has received information that suggests that Alder Lake CPUs will support DDR5 memory.
Another piece of information suggests that the Alder lake CPUs will not also feature the new 10nm process, but also a new design methodology. Reports suggest that Intel plans to include a mix of CPU cores that are based on different IPs. The Alder Lake CPUs be based on ‘big.SMALL’ design methodology, and will come with standard high-performance ‘Cove’ cores and smaller yet efficient ‘Atom’ cores.
big.SMALL design has been used in smartphone processors for some time now and now Intel wants to introduce them in the high-performance market. So far, there is no specific info regarding what type of Cove or Atom cores will be used in the Alder Lake CPUs. But their roadmap suggests that the 10nm Golden Cove and Gracement architectures will be released in 2021, so maybe they will part of the Alder Lake CPUs.
The Coreboot leak listS 18 CPU SKUs. There are five 8 core processors, seven 6 core processors, two 4 core processors & two 4 core processors. SKU leak list is below.
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_1, “Alderlake-S (8+8+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_2, “Alderlake-S (8+6+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_3, “Alderlake-S (8+4+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_4, “Alderlake-S (8+2+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_5, “Alderlake-S (8+0+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_6, “Alderlake-S (6+8+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_7, “Alderlake-S (6+6+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_8, “Alderlake-S (6+4+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_9, “Alderlake-S (6+2+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_10, “Alderlake-S (6+0+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_11, “Alderlake-S (4+0+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_S_ID_12, “Alderlake-S (2+0+1)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_1, “Alderlake-P (2+8+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_2, “Alderlake-P (2+4+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_3, “Alderlake-P (6+8+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_4, “Alderlake-P (6+4+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_5, “Alderlake-P (4+8+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_6, “Alderlake-P (2+4+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_7, “Alderlake-P (2+8+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_8, “Alderlake-P (2+0+2)” },
{ PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ADL_P_ID_9, “Alderlake-P (2+0+2)” },
Not much more is known about the Alder Lake CPUs right now. We will have to wait for more news to come out to see what Intel is planning for its 12th Generation of Desktop CPUs.
