As expected, Intel would have confirmed and given us the details about its next processors during the event held these days September 19 and 20 at Intel Innovation 2023. It was something that we already knew, but now we can say officially.
So let’s review everything that has been mentioned and see what the next generations of processors from the Intel company would offer us.
Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, and Panther Lake
During this event, the three families of CPU products that would replace the Meteor Lake processors and that we will be able to see in December would have been confirmed. It is a later date than expected, since rumors placed it next month, however, we will continue to be able to see it this year. It’s something.
On the one hand, we have Arrow Lakeaimed at laptops and desktop computers and which according to its CEO, Pat Gelsinger, would use the 20A process node in a production that would begin next year, so its arrival to the public would not be scheduled until the second half of 2024.
Gelsinger also showed off an Intel 20A wafer with the first test chips for the Arrow Lake processor, which is targeted for the client computing market in 2024. Intel 20A will be the first process node to include PowerVia, the power delivery technology on the back and the new round gate transistor design called RibbonFET. 18A, which also leverages PowerVia and RibbonFET, remains on track to be ready for manufacturing in the second half of 2024.
Within the characteristics of these Arrow Lakes we can see the following:
- LGA 1851 socket longevity planned until 2026
- DDR5 Support Only, No DDR4 Support
- Start with 800 series motherboards
- Memory Support Up to DDR5-6400 (Native JEDEC)
- Increased PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes via CPU and PCH
- First Arrow Lake-S desktop family supported
- Arrow Lake-S CPUs have 3 MB of L2 cache per P-Core
- Arrow Lake-S CPUs feature updated Alchemist iGPUs
- Arrow Lake-S CPUs feature integrated “Adamantine” LLC for Tile GPU
- Arrow Lake-S CPUs have CPU SKUs of 8+16, 8+0, 6+8
- Launch in 2H 2024
On the other hand, they also showed us the Lunar Lakewith a new CPU architecture built from the ground up that will mark a huge improvement.
Chipzilla has previously revealed that the Lunar Lake family is originally aimed at the 15W low-power mobile CPU segment. The CPU will use a sub-20A node as its process technology along with an external foundry node.
Likewise, the Panther Lake, a follow-up to Lunar Lake, and which are also likely headed to both laptops and desktops. Although it is a product that we will not see until 2025 according to the roadmap that Intel has presented to us. These are expected to implement the next-generation Xe3 GPU architecture, which would improve these components across the board.
