12th Generation Intel Alder Lake Mobility Processor Roadmap Confirms Alder Lake-P with 14 Cores and Alder Lake-M with 10 Cores, First Laptops with DDR5 Support

A new Intel Mobility roadmap has been disclosed, which confirms the specific base configurations of the 12th Generation Intel Alder Lake Mobility processors.

Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake-P has 14 cores, Alder Lake-M Rock 10 cores, the first laptop processor platform to support DDR5 memory

The leaked roadmap indicates the specific time frame by which system integrators will have their mobility products such as laptops and notebooks ready to go. The two platforms we will be focusing on are the Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M series.

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Intel Alder Lake-P Series SKU

The Intel Alder Lake-P series will replace the entire Tiger Lake-H45, H35 and UP3 chip portfolio. It will reach a maximum of 14 cores in the first SKU, which will include 6 Golden Cove cores and 8 Grace Mont cores. Parts replacing the Tiger Lake-UP3 series will include 2 Golden Cove cores and 8 Gracemont cores. The chips will pack GT2 and GT3 Xe setups with up to 96 execution units.

• Intel Alder Lake-P
  • 2 large cores + 8 small cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU
  • 6 large cores + 8 small cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU

Other platform features will include support for Thunderbolt 4, PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes, and WiFi 6E. When it comes to memory support, Intel Alder Lake-P chips will get both LPDDR5 and DDR5 configurations. It is likely that Intel will first release Alder Lake-P with LPDDR5 variants while the high-end successors of Tiger Lake-H will feature DDR5 memory.

Intel Alder Lake-M Series SKU

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Upgrading to the Alder Lake-M line, these chips will replace the Intel Tiger Lake-UP4 platform and exceed 10 cores including 2 Golden Cove cores and 8 Gracemont cores. The chips will come with up to 96 integrated EU Xe, Thunderbolt 4, WiFi 6E graphics cards, but PCIe capabilities will still be limited to PCIe Gen 4. As for memory, laptops with Intel Alder Lake chips- M will be available in both. LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 flavors.

• Intel Alder Lake-M
  • 2 large cores + 8 small cores with a GT2 / GT3 GPU

The power limits and configurations for Intel’s Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M chips were also leaked some time ago, as you can see below:

Now the roadmap is fairly new from what we’ve been told and as per the production window guidelines for system integrators, Intel Alder Lake-P processors will go into production between November 2021 and March 2022. while Alder Lake-M processors will go into production by January 2022. – April 2022. We would certainly hear Intel talking about its mobility chips in its upcoming “ON” and CES 2022 event showcases.

Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake vs Tiger Lake Comparison: