Bryant announced the distribution of processors to laptop manufacturers on Twitter. He supplemented his contribution with a collage of the company’s employees who hold Alder Lake. However, not the announced mobile version, but the already released desktop processors.
How is it different? Assuming Bryant means “high-performance mobile processors.” Alder Lake-P, so there are four major differences. Firstly (unlike desktop) it does not have a heatsperader (IHS), secondly it does not have an LGA interface but a BGA (soldered), thirdly it has an integrated chipset in the case and secondly it is a smaller piece of silicon. Two big cores are missing, so Alder Lake-P not 8 + 8, but 6 + 8, as you can see in the introductory diagram.
It can be assumed that Alder Lake-P will put Intel in a position that AMD will not take out of it for about a year. Currently, AMD Zen 3 has lower frequencies on the market as well as IPC and APU Rembrandtwhich, while offering a much more powerful CPU, cannot be considered with respect to the kernels Zen 3+ expect more than that Intel’s lead in beats and IPC will only slightly decrease. The situation will probably change significantly a year later with the generation Zen 4 (HELP Phoenix), which will also offer more than 8 cores in the high – performance mobile processor segment Raphael).
While Briant talks about the availability of processors to laptop manufacturers, we don’t know much about the availability of the processors themselves (in ready-made notebooks) to end customers. Due to the start of the processor shipment a month before Christmas, these laptops will no longer catch the pre-Christmas season (either at all or very symbolically). Wider availability can thus be expected in the first quarter, but ahead of AMD Rembrandt.
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