Intel Alder Lake comes to lightweight little laptops

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Intel has been making some pretty hefty announcements in the PC gaming space lately. With last week’s 2022 investors day presentation we saw heaps of news drop and even got a look at the company’s CPU roadmap for 2024 and beyond. Talks of 13th, 14th, and even 15th gen CPUs are mentioned to already be in development. But that doesn’t mean the well respected 12th gen Alder Lake is done with by any means, and very soon we get to see the new lightweight mobile chips added to this generation in action.

While we’ve been seeing excellent performance from the beefy laptop-friendly Alder Lake H series chips, it’s taken a bit longer for Intel’s lower-end mobile offerings to release. Finally, the new Alder Lake chips for more modest or lightweight laptops have arrived, and Intel has not held back on the options available.

There are 20 different kinds of the new P and U series of Alder Lake chips available to work in different devices. Already 250 laptops are planned to harbour the chips this year, the first of which are expected to start releasing in March 2022. They’re also coming in a range of prominent brand’s laptops including Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, LG, MSI, NEC, and Samsung. 

At least 100 of these devices have received Intel Evo specification, meeting the high multitasking requirements expected of the hybrid chips. Some are even said to have folding displays and other new fun features. The chips even support Wi-Fi 6e for some reason. Hopefully this means we are going to see some very zippy lightweight Intel powered laptops in the coming months.

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