We have recognized a good quantity about what’s coming after Raptor Lake for a while now. The 14th-generation elements will probably be generally known as Meteor Lake, and if rumors are correct, Intel will probably be concentrating on the cellular market with them first. These will probably be Intel’s first “disaggregated” processors, which is Intel’s method of claiming that they’ll use a number of discrete cube (or “chiplets”, in AMD nomenclature) to do their factor.
One of many key particulars we’ve not recognized for certain about Meteor Lake was what core architectures it might be utilizing. Naturally, we might guess that the P-cores will use some evolution of the “Cove” microarchitecture, whereas the E-cores will most likely be some derivation of Gracemont. People had give you the names “Redwood Cove” and “Crestmont” earlier than, however there was no affirmation till now.
Posting on Twitter, InstLatX64 leaked some Microsoft Perfmon logs that comprise the codenames of the core architectures for use in Meteor Lake: Redwood Cove for the P-cores, and Crestmont for the E-cores, simply as leaked again in 2020. Realizing the names would not inform us rather a lot by itself presently, however it does present that they are completely different sufficient from Raptor Cove and Gracemont to warrant new names. Those self same rumors beforehand acknowledged that Redwood Cove could be an all new-from-the-ground-up design.
The Thirteenth-gen Raptor Lake elements are anticipated to look quickly, however in line with rumors, Meteor Lake will probably be lower than a 12 months behind it, no less than for laptops. Desktop Meteor Lake could also be additional away. Older rumors had Raptor Lake getting bested by AMD’s upcoming Zen 4, however we’re not so certain that would be the case. In any occasion, we’ll discover out when each elements hit our check benches later this 12 months.
