Intel has unveiled ‘Alder Lake’, a central processing unit (CPU) for 12th generation desktop PCs. It is the first product to support DDR (Double Data Rate) 5 DRAM, the next-generation DRAM standard. It is said that the performance improved by 19% compared to the previous 11th generation CPU.
Intel Korea held a press conference on the 29th and introduced the 12th generation Intel Core product line. Code-named Alder Lake, the family features turbo performance up to 5.2 GHz and up to 16 cores and 24 threads. It provides up to 4800MT of DDR5 memory per second, up to 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0, and supports up to 30MB of Intel Smart Cache (L3) and 14MB of L2 cache to increase memory capacity and reduce latency.
This new product is manufactured using the Intel 7 process. It is a process method that is equivalent to the 10-nano process standard of Samsung Electronics and TSMC. The core part is divided into performance core (P-core) and Efficient core (E-core). This is an industry first Relatively important tasks are performed on the P-core, and other tasks are performed on the E-core. Intel explained that in this way, content creation speed was up to twice as fast as its predecessor.
Intel said that the overall performance of this product has improved by 19% compared to the previous model. It is explained that the performance has been improved by up to 100% (based on Adobe After Effects) and up to 28% (based on Hitman 3) in the gaming environment compared to the previous work in the content creation environment.
This new product supports DDR5, the next-generation DRAM standard. Alder Lake is the first CPU compatible with DDR5. With a standard that is twice as fast as DDR4, users can enjoy a more comfortable PC environment by using the product. Choi Won-hyuk, managing director of Intel Korea, said, “DDR5 is not yet widely distributed, so we made it compatible with DDR4 DRAM.
“The 12th generation core processor is a product that can fully meet the expectations of users who enjoy games with high-end PCs and single creators who edit high-definition videos and photos,” said Lee Ju-seok, managing director of Intel Korea. We have been working closely with users for a long time to ensure that users experience optimal gaming performance on Intel-based PCs, and we will continue to cooperate with technology so that they can experience new levels of performance in the future.”
This press conference was held in line with Intel’s global developer forum ‘Intel Innovation’, which will be held from the 27th (local time). The Intel innovation took place for the first time in four years. In the meantime, the Developer Forum was suspended for various reasons, but the event was re-hosted when Pat Gelsinger, who had planned the initial event, took over as Intel’s CEO.
“Developers are the true superheroes of the digital world built on semiconductors,” said Pat Galsinger, CEO, “Intel will support developers and usher in a new era of innovation.”
At the event, Intel also set a goal of improving artificial intelligence (AI) performance by 30 times by 2022. The Intel Xeon Scalable processor has announced that it will achieve a total AI performance improvement of up to 30 times. At this event, a demo version of the next-generation Xeon Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids) was unveiled.
Intel said that the Sapphire Rapids outperform Nvidia’s latest graphics processing unit (GPU) A30 model. The performance improvement was achieved through the AMX (Advanced Matrix Extensions) engine built into the next-generation Xeon processor and INC (Intel Neural Compressor) and one DNN optimization based on one API open industry standard.
Today, Intel is helping AI become more versatile through investments in its developer ecosystem, tools, technologies, and open platforms. We are continuing our R&D for easier AI workload execution, such as strengthening AI accessibility and scalability for developers through extensive optimization of libraries on Xeon Scalable processors.
“Our role is to help responsibly scale AI technologies,” said Intel. “Many leading companies around the world are using Intel AI to solve complex tasks.”
AI Times reporter Kim Dong-won goodtuna@aitimes.com
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