Intel is preparing lost of interesting designs for the future and it is slowly shaping their vision for the next generation of computing devices. Following the big.LITTLE design principle of Arm, Intel decided to try and build its version using x86-64 cores instead of Arm ones, called Lakefield. And we have already some information about the new Alder Lake CPUs based on Lakefield design that are going to be present in the future. Thanks to the report of Chrome Unboxed, who found the patches submitted to Chromium open-source browser, used as a base for many browsers like Google Chrome and new Microsoft Edge, there is a piece of potential information that suggest Alder Lake CPUs could arrive very soon.

Rumored to feature up to 16 cores, the Alder Lake CPU could present a good big.LITTLE design, where one could put eight of "big" and eight of "small" cores to work in tandem, bringing the best of both world - power efficiency and performance. This design would be present on Intel's 3D packaging technology called Foveros. The patch to support the Alder Lake CPUs was added on April 27th to the Chrome OS repository, which would indicate that Intel will be pushing these CPUs out relatively quickly. The commit message titled "add support for ADL gpiochip" contained the following: "On Alderlake platform, the pinctrl (gpiochip) driver label is "INTC105x:00", hence declare it properly." The Chrome Unboxed speculates that Alder Lake could come out in mid or late 2021, depending on how fast Intel could supply OEMs with enough volume.