Alder Lake Discussion Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/30...kely-wrong

In the past six months, major Intel roadmap rumors have included the following:

• Intel has canceled all 10nm desktop CPUs. Desktop remains on 14nm through 2021.
  
• Intel will introduce a new 14nm desktop CPU architecture named Rocket Lake in late 2020, with backported 10nm features.
  
• Intel will launch 10nm desktop Alder Lake in an 8+8 big.Little configuration as an upcoming follow-up to LGA 1200 CPUs. Implied 2021 launch date.
  

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If the first scenario is true, the other two obviously aren’t. If the second scenario (Intel backporting 10nm features) is true, the third probably isn’t. Why would Intel launch Rocket Lake after taking the enormous trouble to backport its capabilities, only to turn around and launch a “true” 10nm desktop CPU at exactly the same time? It wouldn’t.
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Some of you may remember rumors that AMD would develop a super-APU with a high-clocked Piledriver-derived CPU and a wide desktop GPU for graphics, all connected to a unified pool of HBM, in a socket capable of withstanding the power draw. Sources inside AMD confirmed that this was a real product the company was considering building, but ultimately abandoned. The rumors about Tarnhelm weren’t false; they just didn’t come true. This rumor could certainly still be true, but given that it contradicts earlier rumors, we know that some of the information in circulation about Intel’s upcoming plans is incorrect. Salt accordingly.