Intel promises its line-up of future CPUs are all on track but can they compete with AMD?

Date:
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:53:01 +0000

Description:
AMD is not going to make things easy for Intel in the world of processors
next year

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Intel has been busy showing off its new Meteor Lake processors which are due to land in December during its Innovation keynote, but we also heard about the following generations of CPUs.

And the good news from Team Blue is that the roadmap for those next generations of silicon is still on track, with no slippage yet observed in terms of release timeframes.

These generations include Arrow Lake , which will be the next desktop and mobile offering to follow Meteor Lake (mobile, just revealed) and Raptor
Lake Refresh (imminent desktop refresh) as well as Lunar Lake, which will likely sneak out after Arrow Lake (the latter is due late in 2024, in
theory).

Lunar Lake is a bit different in that itll be super-focused on power-efficiency (truly power-sipping mobile CPUs), and weve heard in the
past that its best thought of as another Ice Lake outing from Intel.

Intel actually showed off a test system powered by Lunar Lake at the Innovation event, with the expectation of a (presumably relatively early)
2025 launch. CEO Pat Gelsinger talked about Panther Lake, too, which will follow Arrow Lake (as a desktop and mobile double offering, perhaps, though some chatter indicates itll be desktop only slotting alongside Lunar Lake, which will cover laptops).

According to Gelsinger, Panther Lake is on schedule, and the chip design is complete it should appear during the first quarter of 2024, as German tech site Hardwareluxx.de reports (via VideoCardz ). Analysis: Panther creeping up on us?

While Q1 of 2024 might sound very early for the design of Panther Lake to be complete and taped-in, theres actually still quite a way to go before the finished processors are rolling off assembly lines.

Clearly, were not going to see Panther Lake next year Arrow Lake wont even
be released until later in 2024. Panther Lake could turn up in 2025, though the far end of that year no doubt at the very earliest wed imagine, and
quite possibly itll be 2026, even. Its good to hear its on track, though.

To give some perspective here, Meteor Lake was taped-in back in May 2021, and as weve just seen, its only about to launch in December 2023.

Intel seems pretty happy with the progress its making, though, and we are expecting some huge leaps forward from these future generations of
processors. Arrow Lake could provide a massive performance uplift, at least
if early rumors are right, though a big step forward might be required to
make up for the relatively lackluster upgrade this years desktop outing is likely to be.

Speculation around Raptor Lake Refresh has been muted to say the least, but it's (mostly) a simple refresh of existing 13th-gen processors and notably
we didnt hear anything from Team Blue about these new desktop chips. Thats a little ominous, really

And with AMDs Ryzen 8000 (Zen 5) processors ready to make a splash possibly mid-next-year, Intel may absolutely need Arrow Lake to be something special
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