


Intel has not yet announced the availability of 12th Gen CPUs for other segments such as laptops, however the company has said that additional desktop CPU models will follow in early 2022. This also marks the advent of DDR5 RAM and the PCIe 5.0 interconnect standard. These new CPUs are the first of the 'Alder Lake' family, and introduce a mix of heterogenous Performance and Efficiency cores for the first time in consumer X86 PCs. Six new models have been launched, all of which are unlocked and overclockable.

Intel 'Alder Lake' 12th Gen Core i9, Core i7, and Core i5 CPUs for gaming, workstation and enthusiast desktop PCs have been launched, following several months of teasers and architecture-level disclosures.
