Are you ready for Intel’s 12th Gen Alder-Lake S

It was rumoured that we would see 12th gen in September of this year but it now seems we will only see the Alder-Lake S chips in November according to Wccftech. This would be the fastest architect upgrade in desktop history, with only 8 months between Rocket-Lake S and the new Alder-Lake S.

Alder-Lake S will be Intel’s first chips on the 10nm scale for desktops, it is also rumoured to feature DDR5 on the high end boards and PCIe 5. Intel expects a 20% performance increase for single-threaded applications and up to the twice as good multi-threaded performance.

This means that Intel might beat AMD to both these major performance upgrades on their new platform, LGA1700. The series will utilize Intel’s Hybrid Technology which makes use of a combination of high-efficiency and high-performance cores.

Intel Mainstream Desktop CPU Series
VideoCardz.com	Rocket Lake-S	Alder Lake-S	Raptor Lake-S	Meteor Lake-S	Lunar Lake-S
Launch Date	March 30, 2021	November 2021?	2022	2023 (?)	2024 (?)
Fabrication Node	14nm	10nm Enhanced SuperFin	10nm Enhanced SuperFin (?)	7nm Enhanced SuperFin (?)	TBC
Core µArch	Cypress Cove	Golden Cove + Gracemont	Golden Cove + Gracemont (?)	Redwood Cove + Gracemont (?)	TBC
Graphics µArch	Gen12.1	Gen12.2	Gen12.2	Gen 12.7	Gen 13
Max Core Count	up to 8 cores	up to 16 (8+8)	up to 16 (8+8)	TBC	TBC
Socket	LGA1200	LGA1700	LGA1700	LGA1700	TBC
Memory Support	DDR4	DDR4/DDR5	DDR5	DDR5	DDR5
PCIe Gen	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 5.0	PCIe 5.0	PCIe 5.0	PCIe 5.0
Intel Core Series	11th Gen Core-S	12th Gen Core-S	13th Gen Core-S	14th Gen Core-S	14th Gen Core-S
Motherboard Chipsets	Intel 500 (Z590)	Intel 600 (eg. Z690)	TBC	TBC	TBC