Intel Alder Lake CPU lineup apparently limited to “S” high end until 2022

The previous yr or so of {hardware} availability has revealed some fairly clear and apparent patterns amongst chipmakers. Whereas demand is excessive and provide stays tight, you’ll be able to guess any firm will give attention to its excessive margin merchandise earlier than all else. Based on a latest report from Igor’s Lab, Intel too will put such practices into impact for its highly-anticipated Alder Lake S lineup.

The report means that Intel Alder Lake S merchandise will ship completely within the Okay and KF fashions till 2022. Choices for the remainder of the lineup will then be revealed at CES 2022 and turn into accessible someday after. This definitely sounds acquainted to what AMD is doing with its Ryzen 5000 Collection, and the technique allowed AMD to interrupt new income data in consequence. You may guess Intel needs a lower of the pie as nicely. I suppose the flavour is blueberry.

Alder Lake S at a look

In contrast to the present “Rocket Lake” technology of processors, a variety of gaming fans are excited to see what Alder Lake brings. Primarily based on prior leaks and a few official info, Intel’s upcoming structure will characteristic a brand new hybrid design with huge and little cores totaling as much as 16, with help for DDR5 and probably PCIe 5.0. It can provide extra total efficiency than the present technology, particularly in multi-threaded workloads because of the elevated core counts. All of this can be achieved with a decrease P2 TDP of 228W, so there’s rather a lot differentiating it from Rocket Lake.

That is all that we formally realized about it throughout CES 2021.

Whereas Intel’s CEO said that it expects provide shortages to proceed into 2023, no consultant from the corporate has mentioned whether or not or not Alder Lake S can be laborious to return by when it turns into accessible. Intel claims that its 10nm processors are in full quantity manufacturing at this level. Seeing as there was normal provide for Rocket Lake when it launched earlier this yr, maybe solely the i9s can be troublesome to return by for a brief time frame.

Along with limiting CPU fashions, the report additionally mentions that solely Z690 chipsets for motherboards will go into manufacturing. Should you plan to improve to an Intel Alder Lake S CPU this fall, you may as nicely account for a bigger funds. These are nonetheless simply rumors at this level although.