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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Some Alder Lake SoCs won't have performance cores [techspot.com]

According to an update to a Linux repository that Intel made themselves, found [coelacanth-dream.com] by Japanese outlet Coelacanth Dream, the Alder Lake-based Atom processors will reverse the trend and have up to eight e-cores and no p-cores.

In the update, which contains a partial boot log of an Alder Lake-N part, Intel describes the Atom processors as having two quad-core clusters of e-cores with 2 MB of L2 cache each and a shared L3 cache of an undisclosed size. They also have a 32 EU GPU, the same as the i5-12600.

Alder Lake-N will have up to 8 "Gracemont" [wikipedia.org] cores, while the previous-generation Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake have only 2 or 4 "Tremont" [wikipedia.org] cores.

Also at CNX Software [cnx-software.com] and Tom's Hardware [tomshardware.com].

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