Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs rumored to use LGA 1700 socket, replacing LGA 1200

mood · May 4, 2020

Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs rumored to use LGA 1700 socket, replacing LGA 1200 after just two generations
Those set to buy a 400-series mobo won't be happy
May 4, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/85081-intel-alder-lake-12th-gen-cpus-rumored-use.html

Rumor mill: Are you considering buying one of Intel’s newly revealed 10th-gen Comet Lake desktop processors? If so, you’ll need a new Z490 motherboard that comes with the LGA 1200 socket, but if rumors are to be believed, these will only support a couple of generations of processor families, with 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs switching to the LGA 1700 socket.

Soon after the new Core i9-10900K CPU was officially revealed last week, we heard that the 400-series motherboards it requires would also support 11th-gen Rocket Lake processors, which is when Intel will finally catch up with AMD by offering PCIe 4.0 support.
According to recent reports, lit-tech, a Taiwanese company that provides voltage regulation test tools to Intel in the Asia-Pacific market, has confirmed the LGA 1200 socket will only be used for two generations of processors.
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The LGA 1200 socket has a lot in common with its predecessor
With LGA 1700, however, there are rumored to be some big changes, including the chip shape changing from a square to a rectangle (45.00mm x 37.5mm), meaning no support from existing boards or coolers.

The CPUs are said to mark Intel finally moving away from the 14nm process node and onto 10nm++.
It’s also rumored to use a mix of big and little cores, with eight high-powered cores, eight energy-efficient ones, and integrated graphics (8+8+1), and later versions might support PCI 5.0 and DDR5 RAM.
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mood · Jun 27, 2020

Next-gen Intel Alder Lake-S desktop processors to use LGA 1700 socket
June 27, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/next-gen-intel-alder-lake-s-desktop-processors-to-use-lga-1700-socket

Intel's next-gen Alder Lake-S desktop CPUs will require a new LGA 1700 socket according to a leak from the company's official development resource website which lists the various projects that the firm is working on. Good ol' leakster momomo_us was able to grab a snap of the information there about the future Alder Lake platform(s).

The leak confirms that Intel is testing, or close to testing, power delivery and voltage regulation (VR) of the new LGA 1700 socket using the Gen5 VR Test Tool kit.
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Rocket Lake-S, the immediate successor to Comet Lake-S, could be the first Intel platform to debut PCIe 4.0 support according to a leaked features slide (via Videocardz). Hence, the recent inclusion of PCIe 4.0 support on Gigabyte Z490 motherboards makes sense as it could be in anticipation of Rocket Lake-S and sort of confirms the existence of PCIe 4.0 compatibility on the next-gen Intel desktop lineup.

There is also the mention of Alder Lake P but currently, no concrete information exists about it.
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mood · Jul 17, 2020

Intel Alder Lake CPUs To Get 33% More Execution Units Than Current Generation Flagship
July 17, 2020
https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-la...ution-units-than-current-generation-flagship/

The iGPU design plans for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake have leaked out (Sisoft via TumApisak) and show a 33% increase in EU count as compared to the existing flagship. Interestingly, it looks like Intel has not decided to double down on integrated graphics (compared to TigerLake) for example based on this data.
Intel Alder Lake CPUs will feature 32 EUs likely based on next-gen Xe Graphics
This might be disappointing news for some (I know it is for me) since it means that the GPU will be less powerful than the Tiger Lake iGPU expected to launch next month but there is a silver lining (as always).

It actually does make sense from a business perspective because anyone buying a high-end S-class core from Intel will be equipping that with a discrete GPU and a high-end onboard GPU will only increase costs for the customer.
To put this in perspective, this is a strategy utilized by AMD processors that don't ship with an iGPU at all.
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Of course, the most interesting thing about the Alder Lake processors isn't going to be the iGPU or even the 10nm process - it's going to be the new big and small architectural design. This design coupled will allow the company to increase power efficiency significantly without trading away raw performance and will be the perfect architecture for mobility.

Alder Lake's big and small cores coupled with Tiger Lake's successor's iGPU is where the real battle for integrated graphics is going to be fought.
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mood · Aug 7, 2020

Intel's 12th-generation Alder Lake-S chips to reportedly support DDR5 memory
August 7, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/intels-...ake-s-chips-to-reportedly-support-ddr5-memory

Intel's 12th-gen desktop processors, codenamed Alder Lake-S, will reportedly bring support for DDR5 memory. The company could supposedly move to support the next-generation platform in the same timeframe as AMD, which is expected to happen sometime in late 2021 or early 2022.

The report, courtesy of information sent to Videocardz by an unnamed source, suggests that the Alder Lake-S desktop line up will support dual-channel DDR5 memory that is expected to double bandwidth while consuming less power. The publication also corroborates earlier reporting that with the 12th-gen chips, Intel will also debut a new LGA1700 socket, adding that it will probably be accompanied by new 600 series chipset sporting motherboards.
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Alder Lake-S will most likely be based on the 10nm++ node, with the first desktop generation to support the 10nm processes being the 11th-gen processors, codenamed Rocket Lake-S.
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mood · Dec 30, 2020

Intel 10nm Alder Lake-S CPU engineering sample spotted in Geekbench database
Production could be less than a year away
December 29, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/88110-intel-10nm-alder-lake-s-cpu-engineering-sample.html

In brief: Geekbench 5 scores for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S CPU have turned up online. The benchmarks are sub-stellar but not unexpected from an early engineering sample (ES). Mostly the sighting confirms what we already suspected and firms up the possibility for a Q4 2021 release.

There has been another sighting of Intel's elusive 12th-gen Alder Lake-S CPU. Notable hardware leaker @Tum_Apisak spotted the silicon's benchmark scores uploaded to the Geekbench database Monday evening.
The Geekbench 5 results list it with 16 cores/24 threads running at 1.4GHz, consistent with a previous sighting on the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking database back in October.
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We still have no official word on a possible timeframe for production and release, but as we are starting to see ES versions popping up, we suspect Intel is shooting for a late 2021 launch.
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mood · Jan 12, 2021

Intel unveils new 12th-generation Alder Lake chips as it plays catch up to Apple’s M1
January 12, 2021
https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/12/intel-unveils-12th-gen-adler-lake/

Intel made an appearance at CES this year and brought a preview of its next substantial chip release, the 12th-generation Alder Lake. The company didn’t go into many details on the upcoming chips, but it did give us a taste of what to expect.

Like its predecessor, the 12th-generation Alderr Lake chips will utilize something similar to ARM’s BIG.little technology, a hybrid of both high-performance and high-efficiency cores. Intel has stated that these are laptop and desktop CPUs and that consumers should expect to get their hands on them in the second half of this year (via Ars Technica).
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Alderr Lake will use an improved version of the 10nm SuperFin process, which will go head-to-head with Apple’s ARM instruction set used in the M1. That, paired with the BIG.little architecture, reaffirms Intel’s desire to compete with Apple’s chip.
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