Raptor Lake is one of the CPU architectures that is on Intel’s roadmap for 2022 and will therefore be officially launched in less than a year after Alder Lake, but unlike Alder Lake where the changes will occur. to see the changes on a smaller scale. Let’s see what has been leaked about one of Intel’s upcoming processors.
Raptor Cove, Alder Lake’s new hub
The new information on Raptor Lake comes from the Youtube Hardware channel Moore’s law is dead. According to the information disclosed by this user, Intel will release a new core for Raptor Lake, who would have been named Raptor Cove and we cannot deny that this is the first time we hear this name. The characteristics of Raptor Cove? Apparently it will be the successor to Golden Cove and therefore will come with an improved IPC and new instructions, but at the same time, it will be an upgrade to Golden Cove rather than a kernel made from scratch.
At this time, we don’t know what the new instructions are, but given that Sapphire Rapids will be using an Intel AMX unit and is based on a version of Golden Cove, it is possible that Intel will carry this unit with Raptor Lake. . Which makes sense, especially since more and more applications are using this type of disks to speed up their execution.
24 cores to compete with Zen 4
Raptor Lake will be launched at the end of 2022 and will therefore coincide in its launch date with the AMD Zen 4. Intel’s bet against AMD? They will bet on the big one again. after Alder Lake, but this time with the Increased the total number of cores from 16 to 24 total cores.
The increase in nuclei, however, will not occur equally between the two types of nuclei, but will be the simplest, Intel Atom type cores which will be increased to 16 units, while Raptor Cove will retain the same number of cores as its predecessor Golden Cove, 8 in total.
Other details that have been leaked from Raptor Lake are that it will operate under the same outlet as Alder Lake, the LGA1700 and that as it could be manufactured under the 10nm SuperFine Knot from Intel itself.
What is Intel preparing beyond 2022?
The arrival of Pat Gelsinger as CEO of Intel represents a change of plan, but due to the way every semiconductor company works, these changes cannot be made in the short term, so the roadmap of Intel, at least until the year 2022 has not undergone any changes.
According to Moore’s Law is Dead, Intel seems to be more afraid of what Apple might develop than AMD in terms of processors in the future. The reason is that being able to use TSMC’s more advanced nodes gives them an edge over AMD and Apple may want to look into the high performance processor market. It is also said that Intel in its new policy of licensing its factories to third parties would have contacted it to obtain the manufacture of a new NVIDIA GPU.
Let us not forget that all this information is rumors of distant events and for the moment it should be taken for what it is. In any case, Intel’s future looks interesting, especially for its jump to Tiles or Chiplets, which we have confirmed thanks to Raptor Lake.
