Intel has started supplying Alder Lake processors to laptop manufacturers. Just like the Alder Lake CPUs for the desktop, these are chips with Efficiency and Performance cores. Alder Lake laptops are expected to be released in early 2022.
Intel hasn’t officially given any details on which laptop processors will come out first, but CEO Gregory Bryant says on Twitter that the company has started supplying high-performance mobile processors of the twelfth generation. This indicates that it concerns the Alder Lake-P models. They will follow the Tiger Lake-H variants.
In recent months a lot of information has come out about the Alder Lake-P processors. It looks like they get a maximum of six Performance cores and eight Efficency cores. With HyperThreading for the P-cores, this yields twenty threads.
For now, details of three processors have appeared: a Core i9 and two i7 versions. It is obvious that there will also be i5 and i3 variants with presumably fewer cores. According to VideoCardz, the first laptops with Alder Lake-P processors will be announced around the CES trade show in January 2022. These would also be the first laptops in which Intel’s separate Arc video cards are used.
Intel Alder Lake P
| Processor | Cores / Threads | Clock Speed / Turbo | Tdp |
| Intel Core i9-12900HK | 6P+8E/20T | 2.9GHz / 5.0GHz | 45W+ |
| Intel Core i7-12800H | 6P+8E/20T | 2.8GHz / ? GHz | 45W |
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 6P+8E/20T | 2.7GHz / 4.7GHz | 45W |
Alder Lake-P processors, specs according to rumors