https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-s-desktop-cpu-with-16-cores-spotted-features-up-to-4-ghz-clocks/

Another entry of an Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake Desktop CPU has been spotted within the SiSoftware Sandra database. The processor which seems to be an early engineering sample comes with some nice specifications on the table and should be a major upgrade over anything that Intel has to offer, even its 11th Generation Rocket Lake CPUs which are yet to be launched.

The Intel Alder Lake-S Desktop CPU has no official name but we know that the lineup would be part of the 12th Gen Desktop family which is scheduled for launch in the second half of 2021. The Alder Lake chip is configured with 16 cores and interestingly, SiSoftware lists down the thread count at 32 which may not entirely be accurate. We know that Alder Lake CPUs will feature a hybrid design that will feature both Big x86 and smaller ARM cores. The bigger cores will feature multi-threading so it should be equivalent to 8 cores and 16 threads. The smaller cores however won't feature SMT and will be configured at 8 cores and 8 threads. This would yield a total of 16 cores and 24 threads but we can't say that for sure.