Intel's next-gen Alder Lake CPUs are already on sale but you wont want to
buy one

Date:
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:49:14 +0000

Description:
Chinese black market supposedly has sample chips of the Core i9-12900K up for grabs.

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Intels Alder Lake processors, the next-gen silicon expected to arrive later this year perhaps around October are actually (sort of) on sale now, or at least early sample chips are purportedly available over in China.

As Toms Hardware reports , what are known as Qualification Samples, or early pre-release versions of Alder Lakes flagship Core i9-12900K, are being stealthily sold at just over the $1,000 mark by Chinese retailers on the
black market. Well, not so stealthily flogged that it hasnt been noticed, of course, with hardware blogger YuuKi_AnS picking up on the activity (a leaker who has previously spilled Intel-related info). Here are the best gaming PCs Weve picked out all the best processors And the best cheap RAM prices and deals

These Qualification Sample chips are sent out to Intels partners before the release of a range of silicon, to allow those hardware and software makers to ensure that their products work okay with the CPUs before Intel springs them on the world. Bulking up

Of course, these processors arent finished products, so even if you could buy one from China, it wouldnt be recommended (pushing any legal issues aside). Not just that, but reportedly the CPUs are only being sold in bulk with a 100-unit minimum order, which sounds odd, and older engineering sample chips are being included in that bundle. There's also the fact that the necessary LGA 1700 socket-toting motherboards arent being sold anyway.

Without that, of course, youd have nothing to put the processor in, as Alder Lake comes packing an entirely new socket design, so a 12th-gen model wont
fit in any existing Intel motherboards.

Still, the fact that these processors are apparently being sold on the sly is something of a positive indication that Alder Lake is on track for its
release later in 2021, and perhaps reinforces speculation about an October launch just a few months from now.

After all, weve already seen the chips in several recent leaks including a supposed Core i9-12900K sample CPU which have imparted a good deal of purported info about the spec (all the usual caution is required here, though).

Going by what weve already heard from the rumor mill, the flagship Core i9-12900K could have a top Turbo speed of 5.3GHz with its full-power cores, and 3.9GHz with the power-efficient cores. Itll have 8 of each of those type of cores, for 16-cores in total, with a maximum power consumption believed to be 228W, which would improve on current Rocket Lake chips in that respect
(the 11th-gen flagship pulls 250W for PL2 max power draw). Check out the best PC components for your rig



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