With "Rocket Lake" a relative fizzle, Intel welcomes six new 12th Generation chips and an all-new chipset to its desktop processor portfolio plus a big architectural shift in the form of "Efficiency Cores."
Intel launches six new 12th-gen Core "Alder Lake" processors for desktop PCs, complete with new overclocking options. Intel claims that they'll outperform the AMD Ryzen 5950X in gaming, making the Core i9-12900K the world's best gaming processor.
With feature updates galore, paradigm-changing DDR5 memory, and much more, the technology backing Intel's 12th Generation Core CPUs is just as interesting as the chips themselves. We've got a breakdown.