CES 2022: Intel launches 12th Gen Alder Lake mobile CPUs for laptops, says they are faster than Apple M1 chips

Intel has launched the 12th Gen Alder Lake mobile processors with a hybrid design that is aimed at bringing significant improvements in performance against rivals AMD and Apple.

Intel is one of the important attendees of the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2022 that began on January 5. And the chipmaker used the platform to fire a fresh salvo at the two biggest threats right now. AMD and Apple are both steadily making serious inroads in their chip business and that is a threat to Intel, which still dominates the PC chip business globally. To bolster its position, Intel announced the 12th Gen Alder Lake mobile processors with hybrid design at the event.

The 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU first arrived last year, but it was for desktops. Intel has now brought the 12th Gen H processors to laptops, and it is making some serious claims. The hybrid design of the chipset includes up to 6 performance cores and up to 8 efficiency cores, which, a first in an Intel chip model, brings huge improvements in performance while ensuring optimal battery consumption. This is essentially an architecture that Apple uses for the M1 chipset.