While Meteor Lake is reserved for laptops, Arrow Lake will be an opportunity to revolutionize the offering of processors desktop from Intel.
Barring a major accident, Intel should offer its new generation of processors, Arrow Lake, before the end of 2024, perhaps even during the third quarter.
A relative proximity which still leaves a lot of room for rumors and this is not necessarily a good thing, because a lot of more or less credible information is circulating at the moment.
Improbable name “Core 15th generation”
Information as questionable, for example, as a return from Intel to its old name Core i3/i5/i7/i9 for a range more generally called 15th generation Intel Core.
This latest rumor caused a reaction from one of the specialists in “serious” rumors regarding Intel products, a certain Golden Pig, who posted a message on the Bilibili forums to “ restore the truth “. Beyond chasing silly rumors, Golden Pig provides a lot of information about Arrow Lake processors.
Obviously, even though Golden Pig is a trusted informant, the details they give must be taken with the necessary hindsight, Intel has not yet confirmed anything about what will follow.
Goodbye hyper-threading, DDR4
Golden Pig therefore firstly explains that it is very unlikely that Intel will review its nomenclature again: everything suggests that the CPUs in the Arrow Lake range will be called Core Ultra 2xx.
More importantly, Golden Pig confirms certain rumors, which mentioned the disappearance of hyper-threading technology. Remember that this allows, on high-performance cores, to activate two threads at the same time. Likewise, unlike the Meteor Lake processors, the Arrow Lakes will not have any LP E-core core, these units designed to ensure the “minimum service” of the CPU.
More logically, there would no longer be any question of supporting DDR4 with Arrow Lake. Like what AMD is doing on AM5, only DDR5 will have the right to quote. We are also talking about “only” 4 Xe-Cores for the graphics part while the Intel 20A engraving node would not be used on all the chips. Introduced with Arrow Lake, it would be reserved for CPUs with 6 high-performance cores, the least powerful in the desktop range.
We can bet that other information will not fail to arrive as we get closer to the release and that Intel should not take too long to provide a more precise update on Arrow Lake.
Source : VideoCardz
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