Intel has officially released the so-called Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs for the LGA 1851 desktop socket. This platform won’t receive a new generation like laptops did in the 1.8 nm Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake CPUs. Instead, new models of the 3 nm Arrow Lake generationare coming. And although they do not have a new architecture, they should be very interesting when it comes to the bang-for-buck ratio. Read more “Arrow Lake Refresh Intel desktop CPUs launched: SKUs and pricing”
Originally, Intel was expected to launch the Core Ultra 200 (Arrow Lake) desktop CPU refresh right at the beginning of the year in January. That did not happen, but Intel is still preparing these new models for its lineup, and they should reach stores very soon. The dates when customers can expect them have now leaked. Earlier reports indicated March or April, but Intel will apparently manage to launch them within the first quarter after all. Read more “Intel to unveil new Core Ultra 200 desktop processors next week”
Since 2021 Intel has been using a hybrid CPU architecture with big and little cores (starting with 12th-gen Core CPUs, though it had already been tried a year and a half earlier in the Lakefield SoC). However, the little “E-Cores” derived from former Atom SoC are quite unpopular among some. Now, a radical change is emerging on the horizon—instead of maintaining two completely different core architectures, Intel is moving to a single one. Read more “Unified Core: Breakthrough Change Is Coming To Intel CPUs”
We’ve previously covered Bartlett Lake, a remarkable CPU generation from Intel that resembles something of a parallel Plan B product. While Arrow Lake is being sold for the desktop LGA 1954 socket, Bartlett Lake continues to use LGA 1700, is manufactured on a 7nm process, and supports DDR4 memory. Most notably, it drops E-Cores entirely and consists solely of “big” cores. We’ve now learned the complete specs of these chips. Read more “Bartlett Lake, Intel’s P-Core Only CPUs: Models and Specs”
We covered leaked reports regarding Nova Lake processors recently, which Intel is preparing as the new Core Ultra 400 desktop generation, that should be launching before the end of this year. The leaker known as Jaykihn—currently perhaps the most reliable source on Intel’s roadmap—also shared details about the chipset lineup that will accompany Nova Lake (the CPUs will introduce a new LGA 1954 socket platform). Read more “Intel chipsets for Nova Lake boards: Specs and features”
While we wait for the refresh of Arrow Lake desktop CPUs—except the cancelled the top-tier SKU—new details have surfaced shedding light on the upcoming Core Ultra 400 “Nova Lake” generation, expected to deliver a major next-gen leap. The leaks cover power consumption and cooling, as well as the architecture of the high-performance cores in these processors. Intel is preparing a previously unseen change to CPU cache and interconnect design. Read more “Intel Nova Lake: P-Cores clustered, 52-core draws up to 700 W?”
Intel needs to secure large (and numerous) external customers for its chip fabs to be able to keep them running. So far, Intel Foundry has been generating multibillion-dollar losses every quarter—but now it may have glimpsed light at the end of the tunnel. Companies are currently looking to diversify away from their dependence on TSMC, and partly thanks to this, Intel has apparently managed to land a very important customer: Nvidia. Read more “Intel reportedly landed a deal for fabbing Nvidia’s Feynman GPU”
In December, Microsoft promised that Windows 11 would focus on performance, including in games, during 2026. One of the coming optimizations concerns disk encryption. Microsoft currently uses software algorithms for BitLocker disk encryption, which have certain performance limitations and can increase laptop power consumption. This year, Windows will gain more efficient hardware accelerated encryption—but there is a complication. Read more “Windows 11 gets hardware disk encryption on Intel Panther Lake”
Intel’s serious fab problems are well known by now. Not only having fallen behind foundry chipmakers in process technology, Intel is also being squeezed by the fact that it does not produce enough of its own chips to keep its fabs profitable. As a result, it too seeks to pivot into the foundry market and serve external customers. And yet, Intel itself is now increasingly outsourcing the production of its own chips. Read more “Intel doesn’t want to use its own fabs, makes chipsets at Samsung”
Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake” CPUs last month, the new generation of chiplet-based mobile CPUs, also debuting the company’s 1.8nm process. Intel missed the back-to-school or autumn windows it preferred to launch the new generations in the past, with only a paper unveiling happening in October that didn’t even specify a release date. And only now do we finally have information on when they will actually hit the market. Read more “1.8nm Intel Panther Lake CPUs in January. Launching at CES”
We previously reported that Intel’s code in the openDNN project hinted at Intel Core Ultra 400 processors codenamed Nova Lake supporting the AVX10 and AVX-512 instructions for the first time—the modern 512-bit SIMD extension useful for AI, multimedia, and demanding computations. Simultaneously, the cores of these CPUs were supposed to gain the APX extension. However, information from Intel has now cast doubt on both. Read more “Intel Nova Lake w/o AVX10 and APX? No mention in documents”
Early next year, Intel will release new desktop CPUs meant to refresh its current Core Ultra 200 (codenamed „Arrow Lake“) line for socket LGA 1851. A sneak peek at what we can expect has now been provided by a leak of one of the coming models in the database of Geekbench, software used for CPU performance benchmarks. In it, someone took out for a spin one of the CPUs that will be released as part of the coming refresh. Read more “Intel Arrow Lake Refresh: More cores for affordable models”
AMD and Intel announced a surprising rapprochement a year ago, when both companies, together with PC manufacturers and big software players, founded a consortium to oversee the future development of x86 CPUs and their platform. Faced with the growing threat from Arm processors (which was certainly a motivation), this has proved a good choice and will help push modern extensions for the traditional PC processor platform. Read more “Intel and AMD agree on future of x86 CPUs: AMX and RAM tagging”
Intel unveiled its next generation of Core Ultra 300 laptop processors, codenamed Panther Lake last week. This wasn’t the full launch, but we did learn a lot about their layout and design, as well as the architecture and new features they’ll bring. The main strengths of Panther Lake likely won’t be the CPU cores themselves, but the whole platform’s features. Another plus is that manufacturing is moving back to Intel’s own fabs. Read more “Intel Core 300 CPUs Unveiled: Details and Features of Panther Lake”
Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 300 “Panther Lake” processors last week, which we have covered here. What we left aside is that Panther Lake also debuts a new GPU architecture, Xe3. Aside from the move to a 1.8 nm node, this is arguably the biggest change Panther Lake introduces, as the CPU cores appear mostly unchanged. Xe3 is Intel’s most advanced GPU to date and in this article, we take a closer look at what it brings. Read more “Xe3: What’s new in Panther Lake’s GPU architecture? [analysis]”
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