‘World’s best gaming processor’ is on the way

Intel hopes to enjoy a sunnier future with the announcement of the company’s 12th Gen Alder Lake chips, led by flagship Core i9-12900K CPU, which the company promises is the “world’s best gaming processor”. With the chips set to become available on November 4, all eyes are on it because of its hybrid layout.

Alder Lake features the company’s latest generation high-performance cores combined with new high-efficiency cores for a new hybrid design, along with updates to Windows 11 to improve performance with the new heterogeneous layout.

This is the first of Intel’s desktop chips to move beyond the 14nm process that is being used since 2015’s 6th Gen Skylake chips; these use the new “Intel 7” manufacturing process.