It is essential in the world of hardware, which is always in constant motion, that the launches do not stop for a moment and despite the fact that Intel has just launched its Core 12 for desktop based on Alder Lake and its versions for laptops are approaching. , its roadmap goes further with the launch of its Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids both in its server version, SP, and in its HEDT version.
The next step in Intel’s history at desktop level will be on the one hand the Sapphire Rapids-X in the HEDT version of its server CPU and on the other hand Raptor Lake, which is starting to talk about its release date.
What is the date of Raptor Lake and Sapphire-X Rapids?
Information this does not come from the hand of Intel itself, but on behalf of the information leakers who have dropped that the launch date of the two processors will be in the third quarter 2022. From what we know, at least Raptor Lake will appear on desktop PCs between 10 and 12 months after the launch of the current generation of processors. If this sounds very short, keep in mind that less time has passed between the eleventh and twelfth generation.
Of the two processors, the one that attracts the most attention is the Xeon, as Intel has been absent from the HEDT market for a long time and has given AMD a huge advantage in this market. Let’s not forget that the lack of competition in this industry has pushed Threadripper to continue mid 2021 with Zen 2 cores. We highlight this so that you can see that both Intel and AMD suffer from the same sin: Lack of competition produces stagnation. . AMD will therefore dominate the HEDT CPU market until the date of Raptor Lake and Sapphire Rapids-X.
Intel Core 13 will be a “minor” update
As for the Intel Core 13 at the moment relatively few details are known, although it is too early to talk about it, we hope that Intel will drop the first information of its conference at CES this year to leave details for the rest of the anus. Until recently, we thought it was a minor update to Alder Lake’s architecture, but Pat Gelsinger decided to hit the gas.
Things we know we’ll see in Raptor Lake? Well to start a improved cache system which will allow CPI increase that while it won’t be as impressive as the one we saw in the Intel Core 12, it will be a significant improvement. Although the biggest change will come with the DLVR and the design of the circuits responsible for managing and powering the different parts of the chip. A significant increase in performance per watt is expected between now and the release of Raptor Lake.
In any case, we wonder if we will need a change of motherboard due to the new energy specifications despite using the same socket, LGA1700. Either way, let’s not call a bad time on this issue.
