Last Updated on February 25, 2022 by Anu Joy
Intel’s first Alder Lake-based 12th Gen Core CPUs—the Alder Lake-H series were launched at CES in January. The company has now followed it up with the 28 watt Intel Alder Lake-P series processors and the 15 watt and 9 watt Alder Lake-U series processors.
The second wave of Alder Lake mobile processors are designed for thin and light laptops, which are set to launch in March. Intel claims that the new configuration will offer up to 70 percent better multi-threaded performance compared to Tiger Lake and AMD’s Ryzen 5800U CPU, and even Apple’s M1 and M1 Pro chipsets.
Intel Alder Lake U and P Series Processors Specifications, Features
The 9 W low power Alder Lake U processor features two performance cores, eight efficiency cores, and 96 execution units of graphics. Moreover, it makes use of an Intel design known as BGA Type4 or UP4, which integrates both the CPU as well as the chipset on the same package.
The 15 W low power Alder Lake U processor is housed in a bigger package called BGA Type3 or UP3, with a layout similar to the 9 W processor. It has the same number of performance and efficiency cores as the 9 W version.
Moving on to the higher-powered (28 W) P series of processors, the package size remains the same as the 15 W version (UP3). However, what sets it apart from the U series is its bigger and more powerful silicon. Although the number of efficiency cores and graphics execution units remain the same as the U series, the number of performance cores rises up to six. AnandTech notes that this gives the vendor the option to manufacture a UP3 notebook with either a higher performance P-series chip or a lower power U-series chip.
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The new chips will also feature support for PCIe 4.0 solid-state storage, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 6E.
The report also says that the Alder Lake series of processors could mark a shift in how Intel is classifying its traditional 9/15/28 W segments. Previously, its processors would have four cores, which are now split to form a 2+8 hybrid model. The changes do not stop there, even the naming convention is moving on from suffixes such as G1, G4, or G7 to a power indicator such as U and P.
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