Meteor Lake isn’t here yet as the next generation of Intel processors – Arrow Lake – is on the horizon.
In a few days, Intel should most officially present its Meteor Lake architecture. While Raptor Lake Refresh had only been a kind of stopgap, Meteor Lake must revolutionize the design of the American company’s chips.
However, this new type of architecture is only a stage and Intel has already mentioned subsequent generations many times. Arrow Lake should thus arrive at the end of 2024 and concern both the world of laptops and that of desktop computers.
Follow-up to Meteor Lake AND Raptor Lake Refresh
On paper, Arrow Lake promises to be less revolutionary than Meteor Lake. While the latter will introduce the chiplet design within Intel’s mainstream chips, Arrow Lake should optimize it, but not just a little.
For example, there is talk of further reducing the engraving technique with the 20A process. Intel is also considering changing the nature of the cores used within its processor: from Redwood Cove/Crestmont on Meteor Lake, we would move to the Lion Cove/Skymont duo on Arrow Lake.
But beyond all this very technical information, it is the very existence of these Arrow Lake processors which is interesting. Intel had already demonstrated its future architecture, but today things are even a little more tangible.
Arrow Lake with a TDP of 45 watts
Spotted by harukaze5719, a regular at leaks of all kinds on the Intel side, this is a shipping manifest which gives more substance to the announcements made around Arrow Lake. A manifesto which confirms the existence of a 6+8 processor.
Such a chip would therefore have 6 efficient cores (Lion Cove) and 8 efficient cores (Skymont) for a total of 20 threads. This same document also mentions a GPU part called “GT2” which still remains very mysterious. More certain, however, is the segment concerned by such a chip: it is an Arrow Lake-H therefore equipped with a TDP of 45 watts.
Knowing that Meteor Lake should mainly concern a market for lower consumption machines – we are talking about a TDP of 10 to 30 watts, with a few exceptions – this Arrow Lake should rather follow the Raptor Lake Refresh, while integrating the new features from Meteor Lake. Phew!
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