While Intel has simply launched a 14th technology desktop processor that appears like a easy refresh, the fifteenth technology is already right here. On paper, the upcoming fifteenth technology Intel Arrow Lake-S processors look very promising. During the corporate’s third-quarter monetary outcomes convention name, Intel’s CEO gave a lot of insights into the arrival of those upcoming processors.
First of all, these processors will function Intel’s most superior node, the 20A course of. Intel (and lots of different observers) declare that that is extra superior than its opponents’ 3nm course of, whereas in actuality we’re speaking a couple of 5nm course of. Although this 20A node must be prepared for mass manufacturing within the first half of 2024, the launch of Arrow Lake-S will solely happen within the second half of subsequent yr. This timing is logical, given the arrival of the 14th gen in current weeks and the launch of Meteor Lake (mobility-only) in December of this yr. But Pat Gelsinger takes this chance to say that this fifteenth technology is already up and operating beneath Windows within the firm’s labs.
The post-Arrow Lake period for desktops will take the type of a refresh, with speak of an Arrow Lake-S Refresh with as much as 40 cores (8P 32E) by 2025. But it’s value noting that, as with this 14th gen, the “laptop computer/mobility” vary will undoubtedly be completely different from the “desktop” vary. Panther Lake is predicted to undertake the Intel 18A course of. Like Meteor Lake, Panther Lake can be a spread targeted on mobility, in all probability absent from the desktop aspect.
