Intel has started shipping Alder Lake-P to laptop manufacturers

Intel has been killing it, at least on the specs sheet, with the launch of Alder Lake-S desktop processors. With support for DDR5 and PCI Express 5.0, team blue has played its cards right. Today, Intel's Executive Vice President Gregory Bryant tweeted that Intel is shipping the upcoming Alder Lake-P mobile processors to OEMs to integrate them into upcoming laptops.

Another incredible 12th Gen @intel Core milestone: today, we began shipping our high-performance mobile processors to customers! Congratulations to our Intel teams around the globe for their hard work & commitment in delivering this product. #IntelCore pic.twitter.com/72Glbo4qZo
— Gregory M Bryant (@gregorymbryant) November 22, 2021

Alder Lake-P will allegedly be available in two primary core configurations. Out of the two, a lower-end SKU might feature two Golden Cove Performance (P) cores and eight Gracemonth Efficiency (E) cores. The higher-end one might feature six performance cores along with eight efficiency cores.

A few days ago, alleged benchmarks of Alder Lake-P Core i7-12700H were leaked which revealed high performance of the chip when stacked against AMD's Ryzen 9 5800HX and Apple's M1 Pro.

Here are the scores:

	CB R20 (ST)	CB R20 (MT)	CB R23 (MT)
Ryzen 9 5900HX	570	4,859	12,570
Apple M1 Max	390	2,735	12,385
Core i7-12700H	689	7,158	18,501

According to speculation, the official launch of Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M CPUs shouldn't be far off, now that it is shipping to OEMs. Intel could even launch the new chips at CES 2022.