Intel 12th gen Alder Lake-S rumored to launch in September, expected to feature GT0.5 and GT1 Xe LP iGPUs

[Redaktion]

Intel may launch the 12th gen Alder Lake-S family as early as September this year alongside 600-series chipset-based motherboards, just six months after Rocket Lake-S becomes available. Alder Lake-S will feature a similar Xe LP iGPU as Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake-S but now, we may also get to see a GT0.5 variant.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-12th-gen-Alder-Lake-S-rumored-to-launch-in-September-expected-to-feature-GT0-5-and-GT1-Xe-LP-iGPUs.516755.0.html

[DF]

I have high doubts this time schedule actually happens.  And in fact I'd bet that Rocket Lake is out because Intel doesn't believe it either.  But it's good to have goals.

[Buba The II (Bubba)]

Inb4 the usual AMD crowd (the semiconductor experts, corporate policy experts, etc), I just wanted to ask out reporter:
what in God's name is "enhanced 10 nm SuperFin architecture"?

[_MT_]

Inb4 the usual AMD crowd (the semiconductor experts, corporate policy experts, etc), I just wanted to ask out reporter:
what in God's name is "enhanced 10 nm SuperFin architecture"?

That's Intel's new naming convention for fabrication nodes. Instead of 10 nm ++, you've got Enhanced SuperFin. Actually, it would have been 10 nm +++. But the first generation of 10 nm was so bad that Intel would like to erase it from history and pretend it never existed. :-) I don't think details were published yet as to what changes were made over SuperFin (used to make Tiger Lake).

[sorin]

48 EU with 4800-5400 mhz DDR5 will be around  1.000-1.500  FP32 GFLOPS, around a Vega 6/7 in performance.

[Spunjji]

Inb4 the usual AMD crowd (the semiconductor experts, corporate policy experts, etc), I just wanted to ask out reporter:
what in God's name is "enhanced 10 nm SuperFin architecture"?

That's Intel's new naming convention for fabrication nodes. Instead of 10 nm ++, you've got Enhanced SuperFin. Actually, it would have been 10 nm +++. But the first generation of 10 nm was so bad that Intel would like to erase it from history and pretend it never existed. :-) I don't think details were published yet as to what changes were made over SuperFin (used to make Tiger Lake).

Just validating that this is 100% accurate.

[JayN]

I have high doubts this time schedule actually happens.  And in fact I'd bet that Rocket Lake is out because Intel doesn't believe it either. 

The slides from q4 earnings call show Rocket Lake status as "shipping" and Alder Lake and Sapphire Rapids as "sampling" or "broadly sampling"