Intel has announced its latest 12th Gen Alder Lake featuring the company’s new hybrid architecture with its first laptop chip using the new design, led by the Core i9-12900HK, which is claimed to be the fastest mobile processor ever.

These Alder Lake chips are up to 40% faster than Intel’s 11th Gen counterparts. The Core-i9-12900HK is 28% faster than the Core i9-11980HK when it comes to gaming and it will see even larger gains with up to 43% higher performance for 3D rendering.

They’ll be used for a variety of applications, ranging from mainstream desktops to more specialized devices for retail, manufacturing, and more.

Like the Alder Lake desktop chips from last fall, the new laptop chips offer dramatically boosted core counts, split between Intel’s “performance core” for jobs that need the most processing power and “efficient” cores for less demanding or background tasks.

Intel is releasing a variety of Alder Lake chips in this latest batch, spanning 14-core i9 and i7 models with six performance cores and eight efficient cores. Other less powerful i7 and i5 models drop those numbers considerably, though, down to eight total cores (four performance, four efficient) on the base i5 model.