A small reprieve seems to be taking shape for the current denominations of processors from Intel due to the release of a Raptor Lake refresh.
It’s not always easy to find your way around when Intel is in the process of changing the way it names its processors from its next generation. It will therefore be for Meteor Lake, but not necessarily the 14th Gen since Raptor Lake refreshes could be inserted.
Meteor Lake in “15th Gen”
Through a very official document, Intel confirmed yesterday its intention to change the nomenclature of its processors and, thus, to abandon the famous “i”.
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The American company then explained that its objective is to simplify the names of its chips so that things are clearer for the average user. In fact, three categories are now planned: Intel, Intel Core and Intel Core Ultra with, for each of them, up to four encrypted subdivisions (3, 5, 7 and 9), as before.
Intel indicated that this new nomenclature will apply from the next generation of processors evoking the Meteor Lake architecture and giving some indications on hypothetical processors: Intel Core Ultra 9 1090H, Intel Core Ultra 7 1070K or Intel Core 5 1050U.
Raptor Lake refresh on LGA1700?
Still, a certain vagueness still surrounds the fall of 2023 at Intel. The company has repeatedly reminded that Meteor Lake will be well distributed during this period, but various rumors suggest that this launch could be limited to mobile processors, or even desktop Core 3/5.
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At the same time, a Raptor Lake refresh series would be planned which could finally take the name of 14th generation and perpetuate, for a few more months, the current nomenclature of Intel processors. It would thus be possible that models like the Core i9-14900K or the Core i7-14700K are indeed in the boxes of Intel.
While Meteor Lake is due to introduce a new socket (LGA1851), this Raptor Lake refresh would be a last-ditch for the LGA1700 platform and Intel would only change its nomenclature once these models have been distributed so as not to confuse (too much?) things.
Source : Videocardz
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