From the start of the CES 2024Intel scored points by confirming the arrival of its new micro-architectures processors before the end of the year.
As important as it is today, the Raptor Lake Refresh line does not represent the future of processors for Intel at all. Its architecture is losing momentum.
The release last December of Meteor Lake is a step in the right direction. A step that Intel intends to pursue with Arrow Lake on one side and Lunar Lake on the other: two generations presented at CES.
Arrow Lake: the Meteor Lake of desktop CPUs
One of the Intel conferences at CES 2024 was presented by Michelle Johnston Holthaus, principal manager of Intel’s client computing division. A golden opportunity to discuss the (very near) future of the company.
For her opening remarks, Michelle Johnston Holthaus was clearly optimistic, indicating that the company is already “ in the final stages » for its two new processor micro-architectures before switching to Arrow Lake which is based on the Meteor Lake design to bring the new features to the world of desktop processors.
Such a conference is not the place to detail the references and discuss precisely the number of cores or the on-board cache. On the other hand, Intel took the opportunity to confirm the arrival of Arrow Lake-S series on socket 1851 (desktop therefore), but also Arrow Lake-H/HX/U series for laptops, Arrow Lake not being exclusive .
Lunar Lake at the end of the year on laptops
The Arrow Lake micro-architecture is based on the operation of Meteor Lake, with its multiple tiles, but evolves towards Lion Cove for its efficient cores while a mix of Skymont/Cresmont seems to be used for efficient cores.
Arrow Lake is expected before the end of this year and everything suggests that the micro-architecture could arrive during the summer while the end of 2024 would be occupied by Lunar Lake on one side and Panther Lake on the other. For the latter, we remain largely in the dark, however, Lunar Lake was also in the spotlight at CES.
Lunar Lake is not designed for the desktop world, but the first models of laptops thus equipped are planned for the end of 2024. Here it would be a question of evolving the Meteor Lake design to integrate Skymont cores in E-Core, a faster NPU solution and, above all, a new iGPU thanks to the integration of the Battlemage, Xe2-LPG architecture.
Source : Tom’s Hardware, Wccftech
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