Intel “Alder Lake” Acquires Laptops in March

Intel has not unexpectedly expanded the family of Core 12000 “Alder Lake” laptop processors, as the specifications have already been revealed. under CES earlier this year. Now it is officially launched, and to update the memory, the previous specifications are repeated with some new details, which will be available in the new laptops from March.

There is a lot of news in the 28W Intel segment for what is becoming an increasingly mid-range of laptop circuits. Although not directly related to the hardware itself, Intel has eliminated the G1, G4 and G7 suffixes, which were previously used to distinguish which graphics circuit a particular processor had. Instead, Intel segmented the new processors a little differently, and also changed the set of numbers a bit. Where five previously referred to a 28W TDP, it now applies to the P at the end.

P models will be a total of six new processors; Three Core i7, two Core i5 and one Core i3. Core i7 models get a graphics circuit of 96 comps, while the Core i5 gets a slightly weaker graphics part with 80 comps and the Core i3 processor should settle for 64. The graphics part frequency ranges from 1100 to 1450MHz depending on the model.

When it comes to processor cores, Intel has a slightly different strategy than before, largely due to its efficient Gracemont cores. For the first time, Intel also has a six-core performance processor in this segment, with the Core i7-1280P having six Golden Cove cores and eight Gracemont cores. Otherwise, there are no big surprises in this part of the wizards.

Intel divided the U models into two groups, one of 15 W, which now uses five as the last digit and one of 9 W that uses zero as the last digit. Here, however, Intel has been limited to two performance (P) cores while Core i3 models get only four energy-efficient (E) processor cores.

This segment also includes Pentium and Celeron models with one performance core and four energy-saving cores. Celeron models also lack turbo frequencies. The graphics portion of the U models follows the P models, but the Pentium and Celeron processors get a smaller graphics portion with only 48 compute units.

Other than that, the biggest news is support for DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory, as well as support for up to two SSDs via NVME PCI Express 4.0 for the 28W and 15W models. Other minor details that have been updated are support for an image refresh rate of 120Hz via the built-in 4K Displayport, Open CL 3.0 support, and support for Intel’s Gaussian & Neural Accelerator 3.0 AI.