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Alder Lake µarch
General Info
Arch Type	CPU
Designer	Intel
Manufacturer	Intel
Introduction	2021
Process	10 nm
Core Configs	"+8" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8. 8+8, "+8" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. 6+8, "+0" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. 6+0
Instructions
ISA	x86-64
Cores
Core Names	Golden Cove, Gracemont
Succession
Tiger Lake Rocket Lake Meteor Lake

Alder Lake (ADL) is Intel's successor to Tiger Lake, a 10 nm microarchitecture for mainstream workstations, desktops, and mobile devices.

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Process Technology

Intel is planning Alder Lake to be built on an improved 10 nm Superfin node, or 10 nm++. This will be the case for both the powerful Golden Cove cores, and Gracemont cores.

History

Alder Lake was leaked already in 2019. In 2020 Alder Lake was seen for the first time in benchmarks. In January 2021 Intel teased Alder Lake in their CES 2021 speech. In February 2021, Alder Lake-P was spotted in Geekbench.

Architecture

Key changes from Tiger Lake

• Core
  • Hybrid Golden Cove(big core) & Gracemont(small core) microarchitecture
  • At least 20% IPC improvements
  • Improved 10 nm node
• Memory
  • Support for DDR5
  • Speeds of at least 4800MHz, up to 5600MHz
• Improved power delivery system