Intel Core 12 for laptops at CES 2022
It’s no secret that Alder Lake’s architecture was going to reach laptops and as happened with rival AMD, we had Intel’s first in so-called ultrathin gaming laptops or ultralight based on processors with a TDP of 28 W where in the case of Intel were called Intel Core 12-P. On the other hand, the Intel Core 11-H 35 and 45 W from TDP will receive their corresponding replacement in the twelfth generation.
Since Intel they haven’t given the full specs, but its form factor is the same as the previous Tiger Lake-H and they share the integrated GPU, but separated into another chip from the previous generation. However, that doesn’t mean that Intel hasn’t made improvements to its iGPUs, however, we’ll get to that later.
Intel EVO
Under this mark we find a certification that indicates that a laptop meets a series of Intel requirements. Because this year we are going to see the new GPUs for gaming, they have decided to bring them into the Intel Evo specification. Are we facing Intel’s statement of intent to only promote laptop hardware where all components will be of the same brand? Fortunately, it is the assemblers and manufacturers who have the final say in joining the Intel Evo program.
From what is inferred from the slide, computers with an Intel Core 12-P processor would be exempt as an Intel Core 12-H processor is required as a processor. The certification requires the use of wireless radios from Intel and as we said previously a dedicated GPU. Thus, the vast majority of components will come from the brand founded by Gordon Moore.
And what about the new desktop models?
Intel has widened the portfolio of its Core 12s available for desktop computers, but they have put forward a single processor among the new models: the i9-12900KS, which has the capacity to reach 5.5 GHz in Turbo with a or two hearts. It would therefore be the new top of the range among Alder Lake desktops.
As for the next-generation processors, Raptor Lake, they have confirmed that they are already finished and that they will run on Windows in the company’s labs. The final design would therefore already be completed, however, we did not receive a specific release date, only later this year.
Intel ARC en el CES 2022
However, there is something that disappointed us and that is the Alchemist Intel ARC no-show and we hope to see Intel show off the first generation of gaming graphics cards under the brand. However, they did hit the market, and Intel announced that they had been successful in getting several brands to incorporate their ARC Alchemist into up to 50 laptop designs. There was no mention of the desktop versions and no custom graphics cards either, only that we’ll start seeing the first laptops with an Intel Gaming GPU in the first quarter of 2022.
Intel deep link
The first technology that Intel presented at CES 2022 related to ARC GPUs is Deep Link, the equivalent of AMD’s SmartShift, but with the Intel brand that allows synchronization between the iGPU and the ARC GPU. However, Intel has planned to go further, since Deep Link allows the power of the graphics card integrated into the processor to be used for non-graphics tasks that however benefit from running on a GPU such as physics calculations, animation, post-processing. effects, etc.
Where they have demonstrated this capability is in video transcoding, in a demonstration in which the two GPUs share the images to be encoded in one format and / or resolution. It is certainly an interesting technology for video streaming. They called this function Hyper Encode and it allows you to speed up times up to 40%.
Multi-device experience
At the moment it is not available in the short term in Intel processors, but it is a display controller technology that will allow us to use any device with a display within a network without local wire or via USB C with DisplayPort on a secondary display. You will be able to automatically broadcast the content of your games on the Smart TV in the living room or transform your tablet into a second screen for the PC.
This is not something that cannot be done today, however, from Intel they promise that what they want is to automate this task and we will have it available at the end of this year. .
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