According to new indications, the Intel Alder Lake CPUs will be on sale from November 4. That is more than two weeks earlier than previously assumed. The desktop processors would be available to order from October 27.
The date of the start of sales appears from a message from MSI. The manufacturer offers owners of PhD coolers an upgrade kit for the new LGA1700 socket and that promotion will take effect from November 4. According to VideoCardz, several other sources have confirmed that the Alder Lake processors will be available then. Wccftech author Usman Pirzada claims on Twitter that pre-orders can be placed from October 27. On that day, the Intel Innovation event will start, at which the manufacturer will release all the details about Alder Lake from the goals.
Earlier there were rumors that the Alder Lake CPUs and the accompanying Z690 chipset will be released on November 19. If the processors appear on November 4, it is obvious that the corresponding motherboards will also be for sale during that period.
In August, Intel provided detailed information about the architecture of the Alder Lake processors, but an official lineup of processors has not yet been announced. Only three Alder Lake processors are expected to appear initially, in K and KF variants. The latter do not have an integrated GPU.
| CPU* | Product code | cores | Clock speed | L3 cache | |
| Base | boost | ||||
| Intel Core i9-12900K | BX8071512900K | 8P + 8E | 3.2GHz | 5.3GHz | 30MB |
| Intel Core i9-12900KF | BX8071512900KF | 8P + 8E | 3.2GHz | 5.3GHz | 30MB |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | BX8071512700K | 8P + 4E | 3.6GHz | 5.0GHz | 25MB |
| Intel Core i7-12700KF | BX8071512700KF | 8P + 4E | 3.6GHz | 5.0GHz | 25MB |
| Intel Core i5-12600K | BX8071512600K | 6P + 4E | 3.7GHz | 4.9GHz | 20MB |
| Intel Core i5-12600KF | BX8071512600KF | 6P + 4E | 3.7GHz | 4.9GHz | 20MB |
*Based on unconfirmed information from online stores