Intel’s roadmap is just a little complicated, at the very least for these of us trying in from the skin. There are such a lot of lakes, you would be forgiven for pondering we’re taking a look at a map of Canada. The newest 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 cellular oriented structure, with a give attention to low energy consumption and efficiency per watt. It is anticipated to comply with Meteor Lake, or co-exist with it if Intel splits its cellular chips into two broad efficiency tiers.
On the desktop aspect, we are able to count on Raptor Lake refresh CPUs later in 2023, adopted by Arrow Lake chips later in 2024. There’s numerous lakes there to swim via, but when we separate the cellular and desktop architectures, it makes drowning simpler to keep away from.
Based on reporting from Moore’s Legislation is Useless and @SquashBionic (through Pocket book Verify) Lunar Lake will comprise as much as 4 Lion Cove P cores and 4 Skymont E cores. Which may look just a little underwhelming so far as multithreading efficiency goes, however keep in mind we’re doubtless taking a look at 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 rely might be useful.
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 stands out as the first to incorporate an Arc Battlemage GPU tile with as much as 64 Xe2 execution items. We all know little or no about Battlemage at this level, however it’s secure to imagine it can simply outperform Arc Alchemist. Given Intel is making nice strides with its driver, and it is certainly recognized bottlenecks in its structure, I might speculate that Intel’s cellular graphics will make a significant leap ahead.
It is necessary to do not forget that these components are a good distance from launch. Leakers can (and do) get it improper, so the proverbial pinch of salt is required. Nonetheless, a doubling of P core rely (over Raptor Lake U) and Battlemage graphics in a 15W package deal bodes properly for extremely low powered units.
Will Lunar Lake be relegated to cheaper Chromebook or entry degree class units? Or may we see them in premium tier ultrabook fashions? Time will inform. There is a lengthy technique to go. Let’s examine how Meteor Lake laptops do first!
Think about what all these lakes might 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 could possibly be extra complicated than ever. Intel’s advertising people will hopefully choose a branding and naming scheme that can make sense to prospects.
