The biggest architectural change at Intel since 2006?

After Intel Architecture Day, Rumor Mill focuses on: Intel promises 19 percent more IPC to Alter Lake, while the spacecraft found that Lunar Lake adds 30 percent more IPC compared to Meteor Lake. Have to bring. It also includes the term Royal Core, an evolution of key technology, which Kim Keller is said to have been involved with before she packed her bags.

But from the beginning: loud Moore’s law is dead Intel will heat up between Alter Lake and Meteor Lake in order to perfect the chiplet or tile technology and 2.5D / 3D stocking. Royal Core is a very ambitious project that should bring Intel closer to ARM in terms of performance. First, the Royal Core will start with Lunar Lake, but will only operate with Nova Lake.

Lion Cove is the cores aimed at Arrow Lake and Moon Lake; With Panther Cove, the next development of the cores will follow the “Royal Core Step” CPU codenamed Nova Lake. In this context, Intel supported the SMT4 and DDR5-7400 and is said to have brought machine learning into the mainstream. But rumors are so far ahead that a pinch of salt must be too big. In chronological order, we are here with the technology to stand up to Zen 5 – the window is closer to 2024 vis 2026.

A long view of the future

Or in the chronology of code names: Alder Lake will probably appear at the beginning of the year, then Raptor Lake will probably come in Q2 2022, then Meteor Lake will probably be in Q2 2023, and then we will be in Arrow Lake – said in Q4 2023.

At least you get a rough idea of ​​what a road map looks like on Intel. It remains to be seen whether the path will be followed in exactly the same way. There are always surprises. After all, you can carry:

Arrow Lake (~ 2023/24, Gen 15) should be calculated with 8 Lion Cove and 32 Skymond cores and should be based on the Intel 4 process.
– Lunar Lake (~ 2024/25, Gen 16) is expected to bring the specified layout to the Intel 3 process now and integrate IPC and General 13 graphics 30 percent higher than Meteor Lake.
– Nova Lake (17 2025/26, Gen 17) is said to be the largest architectural change since 2006 (Royal Core), introducing the Panther Cove and Darkmond cores.

After all, the timetable assumes that the multifaceted structure with hybrid processors is the future. AMD wants to deal with the issue with the Gen5. The focus will be more on planning – and more on optimal software.

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