It is expected that in a few weeks Intel will present us with a new range of processors, which will contribute little. The 14th Generation is just a revision of the 13th Generation, without really relevant news. But, Arrow Lake arriving in 2024, will change its name and bring some news.
We remember that Intel has decided to make nomenclature changes to its processors. It will go from the current Core i5 to be called Core Ultra 5. This “rebranding” is not a big deal and is something more purely marketing to assimilate the name used by AMD.
A change that we have already seen in some recent processors of the company. Intel has finished with the Pentium and Celeron, two brands that were more than 30 years old. The very low consumption range is renamed Intel N, designed for laptops and embedded systems such as Mini PCs.
Intel copies a technology from AMD
There are several changes that the Intel Arrow Lake processors will introduce. These new processors would be based on the Intel 20A process, which would be a 2nm process. we will have the new Lion Cove (P-Core) and Skymont (E-Core) cores. In addition, these processors completely remove support for the DDR4 RAM.
We will have more changes, such as a socket change, going to use the LGA1851. Meteor Lake was going to use this socket type, but since the changes are minimal, it won’t. The LGA1700 socket for Meteor will be maintained and thus allow compatibility with current motherboards.
At the moment, there is not much more data related to the next processors of 2024. These processors are required to arrive with some kind of important news. The core architecture already exists, the proast at 2 nm, It’s not a big improvement and the socket change is something they do every two years.
Well, the big jump would be in the cache. The Intel 12th Gen for each P-Core has 1.25 MB and the 13th Gen, it would increase to 2 MB. It is expected that for Arrow Lake (14th Gen) of the shigh up to 3 MB cache.
The first rumors suggest that, in this sense, Intel copied a feature of the AMD Ryzen. Apparently, to increase the cache would be used a stacking, as it happens with the Ryzen 3D. This aspect is not entirely clear, but the first rumors point in this direction.
Will we see more cores?
Currently, it is difficult to say, but moving to a more compact lithography should allow for an increase in the number of cores. It is possible that the number of P-Cores will be increased, although not ought be in excess Current solutions are already quite powerful and the core configuration is flexible.
Surely and, most likely, it is an increase in frequencies, approaching 6 GHz. This would be possible thanks to using a manufacturing process for transistors close to 2 nm.
They could arrive together with Windows 12, so there are still certain synergies between the solutions of both companies. We have already seen how Microsoft has released Windows 11 to adapt to the new kernel design.
