https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-cpu-leaked-by-the-tech-paparazzi-z690-chipset-and-lga-1700-detailed/

The upcoming, next-generation Intel Alder Lake CPU has been pictured in all its glory and the Z690 chipset has been detailed (courtesy of Videocardz). Videocardz (via Performance Inquisitor) mentions that the processor pictured is an engineering sample but it looks like a confidential press sample to us (which, unlike an engineering sample, is the final revision of the silicon and is read by the BIOS with the retail name of the CPU and not as Intel 0000).

The 12th generation Intel Alder Lake CPUs will feature 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 (which can be bifurcated in either a 1x16 design or a 2x8 design. The chipset plan appears to suggest that only Intel SSDs will be able to support this lane. DDR4 and DDR4 are also natively supported with a total of two channels (2 DIMMs per channel), which is standard in the mainstream segment of motherboards. Interestingly, Intel is going with the Intel UHD graphics nomenclature as opposed to Xe (which might be an attempt to bifurcate their high-end graphics efforts away from the low-end iGPUs).