Intel’s roadmap is a little bit complicated, not less than for these of us wanting in from the surface. There are such a lot of lakes, you would be forgiven for considering we’re a map of Canada. The most recent particulars concern Intel’s Lunar Lake structure, which is tentatively deliberate for launch in late 2024 or early 2025.
Lunar Lake is believed to be a cell oriented structure, with a concentrate on low energy consumption and efficiency per watt. It is anticipated to comply with Meteor Lake, or co-exist with it if Intel splits its cell chips into two broad efficiency tiers.
On the desktop facet, we will anticipate Raptor Lake refresh CPUs later in 2023, adopted by Arrow Lake chips later in 2024. There’s numerous lakes there to swim by, but when we separate the cell and desktop architectures, it makes drowning simpler to keep away from.
In response to reporting from Moore’s Legislation is Useless and @SquashBionic (through Pocket book Verify) Lunar Lake will include as much as 4 Lion Cove P cores and 4 Skymont E cores. That may look a little bit underwhelming so far as multithreading efficiency goes, however keep in mind we’re possible 15W U class CPUs right here. The i7 1365U is Intel’s high finish Raptor Lake U processor and it solely has two efficiency cores (although it has eight E cores), so in lots of workloads, the upper P core depend can be helpful.
MLID mentions the likelihood that these P cores may lack hyperthreading. I am skeptical on that time. Historically, a 4C/4T implementation is preferable to 2C/4T, although 4C/8T can be even higher.
Maybe the extra attention-grabbing little nugget is that Lunar Lake chips would be the first to incorporate an Arc Battlemage GPU tile with as much as 64 Xe2 execution models. We all know little or no about Battlemage at this level, however it’s secure to imagine it would simply outperform Arc Alchemist. Given Intel is making nice strides with its driver, and it is absolutely recognized bottlenecks in its structure, I might speculate that Intel’s cell graphics will make a significant leap ahead.
It is vital to keep in mind that these components are a good distance from launch. Leakers can (and do) get it unsuitable, so the proverbial pinch of salt is required. However, a doubling of P core depend (over Raptor Lake U) and Battlemage graphics in a 15W package deal bodes effectively for extremely low powered gadgets.
Will Lunar Lake be relegated to cheaper Chromebook or entry stage class gadgets? Or may we see them in premium tier ultrabook fashions? Time will inform. There is a lengthy method to go. Let’s examine how Meteor Lake laptops do first!
Contemplate what all these lakes can be known as as soon as they hit the market. With Intel set to drop its ‘i’ branding, the names of the myriad of chips that cowl desktops, laptops, core counts, TDPs, and architectures might be extra complicated than ever. Intel’s advertising and marketing of us will hopefully decide on a branding and naming scheme that may make sense to prospects.