Intel confirmed that the production of its Alder Lake processors based on a radically new hybrid architecture will increase in the second half of this year. Confirmation came together with income calls, in which the new General Director of Intel Pat Gelsinger expressed confidence in its upcoming 7-nm production processor.
Looking into the future, we look forward to the possibilities that we offer customers with Alder Lake for mobile and desktop PCs and Sapphire Rapids for the data center. These products use the advantages of our advanced Superfin technological process and numerous architectural improvements, and both are widely used by customers.
"We qualify table computers and Alder Lake laptops for production and start building production in the second half of 2021, and the qualification of Sapphire Rapids is waiting at the end of 2021," said Swan.
Swan mentions the "advanced superfin technological process" relating to the last revised version of the problem of the problem of the production processor Intel. Initially planned to be introduced in 2015, the Intel processor with 10-nm is late for at least five years.
Currently, Intel has not yet sold a 10-nm processor for desktop computers or laptops with more than four cores. Indeed, before these chips ALDER LAKE appear at the end of this year, Intel must release another generation of 14 Nm processors, known as Rocket Lake.
In this context, confirmation that Alder Lake remains on the road by the end of this year, is of great importance. As is known to ordinary readers, Alder Lake will not be simply the first complete set of 10-nm Intel processors, but also introduces a radically new hybrid architecture.
It looks like the so-called big. Male Arm chips found in smartphones and a new Apple M1 processor, Alder Lake combines both large, high-performance processor kernels and smaller high-performance kernels, theoretically combining the best of both worlds in one architecture.
Although this is a well-proven approach in smartphones, such a hybrid architecture would be a novelty in the context of ordinary PCs, and especially desktops. The most significant doubt concerns the awareness of the operating system regarding Windows.
In short, the operating system must be aware of the chip topology to schedule software streams to the correct nuclear. Otherwise, critical streams will inevitably be on small nuclei, at least some time, which will threaten productivity.
Even if the hardware is definitely on the way to this year, Intel must nourish the program side before it can even think about the release of chips to the external market.
