Although Apple is switching a fair amount of its gear to Apple Silicon processors, Intel still has some good stuff en route.
Intel is releasing its new “Alder Lake” processor this fall. The chip will offer support for DDR5, PCIe Gen5, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 6E.
The processor will also feature a new hybrid architecture; similar to Apple’s M1 chip the offering from Intel will have a mixture of performance and efficiency cores, known as “Golden Cove” and “Gracemont” cores, respectively. The max number of cores will be 8 of each with 24 threads. Alder Lake will be the first chip released on Intel’s newly renamed Intel 7 technology node, which is a 10nm process.
Per Tom’s Hardware:
the company did tease several planned Alder Lake SoCs that would utilize the new cores. Those include a desktop SoC with eight performance cores, eight efficiency cores, and integrated memory, graphics, and I/O; a laptop SoC with six performance cores, eight efficiency cores, imaging, Thunderbolt 4 support, memory, I/O, and more powerful Xe graphics.
Alder Lake’s exact release date is currently unknown, although some expect an October launch.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and Tom’s Hardware