Uh huh, it'll still be 6-12 months for DDR5 ram to even get to compete against DDR4 ram right now. Clock timings have to get to 30 and below to surpass the fastest DDR4 ram.
As for PCIE5.0, any actual m.2 drives out yet for that? As in the shops and not still preorder as in later date?
Alderlake is beta testing and frankly if you want to be an early adopter to test this thing out before both Intel/AMD bring out something next gen, that's up to you.
Anyways, Intel will be again on top at one point but it's the same story with that company, on top, then they get lazy. And then we know that AMD brings out something that wipes the floor with them. Athlon, AMD64 and Ryzen. That's three times Intel has been caught out and was unable to innovate properly, it's always react later, never beforehand.
They've licenced and use AMD64 instruction set even today as their IA64 original set was not up to the task. They eventually got around to using what they called glue. And eventually they'll use 3D cache on their processors, again behind AMD and this company has less money in R&D than Intel and they seem to be the ones to be ahead of this company.
Intel ahead? They've never truly been ahead, more to marketshare and all. I want to see Intel get something right a lot more and get something right in new tech than having to fall onto AMD to sort it out. I'm not impressed by their R&D and/or engineering team quite frankly. They really need to up their game and not sit back again once they're ahead once more. But we know Intel will do that, hence the 14nm++++ issue they went through and currently piling on the wattage just to get ahead.
Ahead? I'm not impressed.