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Intel axes 12th Gen Alder Lake and 4th Gen Xeon Sapphire Rapids — final orders for Intel's first hybrid CPUs end in just a few months

from Latest from Tom's Hardware on 2026-01-21 17:05 (#730AA)

Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake and 4th Generation Xeon Sapphire Rapids Scalable processors have reached end-of-life (EOL) status.

Intel Bartlett Lake-S CPUs reportedly wield 12 blazing P-cores and 5.8 GHz boost — turbocharged chips that will not make it to retail

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ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

from Latest from Tom's Hardware on 2026-02-21 16:42 (#73QWX)

Intel's Core 200E-series 'Bartlett Lake' CPUs to offer up to 12 cores at a 125W TDP, according to a leak.

Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard

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editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

from Latest from Tom's Hardware on 2026-04-04 11:20 (#74Q81)

A modder has successfully booted a 12-core Bartlett Lake-S CPU into Windows using a modified BIOS on an Asus Z790 motherboard.

Intel developing two-lever retention mechanism for LGA 1954 socket, according to new leak — Premium Nova Lake-S motherboards will feature 2L-ILM sockets

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editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

from Latest from Tom's Hardware on 2026-04-09 12:01 (#74TJC)

Some high-end motherboards for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors have been tipped to include a dual-lever retention mechanism called "2L-ILM." We've seen something similar before with LGA 2011, but that a server platform. Boards with 2L-ILM will live alongside standard ILM (1L-ILM?) variants that are cheaper to produce.

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