In recent years, we have seen how Intel has chosen to offer a very particular design for all its processor lines, and as we well know, they include a hybrid architecture that takes advantage of the capabilities of adding lower-performance cores to improve the use of applications that require less power. Now, Intel is preparing the new Arrow Lake based on this architecture, but there is a model of processor which could include three cores distinct.
The commitment to include a greater number of cores at the cost of great power was one of the great innovations proposed by the company a few years ago, and they have continued to maintain this type of architecture throughout all their generations, but now it could change a bit. We recently saw an announcement that the company could launch models that do not include additional efficiency cores, but now we also know that they want a processor that does the opposite, adding another type of processor. additional core
Intel commits to adding more different cores to its processors
So let’s just know how it will actually be the new processors that Intel has thought about, and it’s a lot of news that we’re coming from rumors, filters and all kinds of information that comes from some of the official sources like no other. they are. One of the unofficial sources where we can find generally true information comes from the updates of the different operating systems prepared for said versions, and in this case it is a Linux update.
The latest Linux PMU update indicates a novelty, that is, in addition to incorporating an architecture that includes the new cores of the next generation, Lion Cove (P-Cores) and Skymont (E-Cores), it also integrates two E-Core additions that have the current architecture, Crestmont. This would imply that we would have in this type of processors a sum of 6 high-performance cores (Lion’s Cove), 8 efficiency cores (Skymont) and two additional low-power cores (Crestmont
“ArrowLake-H is a specific variant of regular ArrowLake. It shares the same PMU functionality in Lioncove P and Skymont E cores with ArrowLake, except that ArrowLake-H adds additional Crestmont Uarch E cores.
Intel’s plans do not involve changing the core type that is Crestmont, which implies that it is essentially implementing those cores that have, according to the company, 50% lower performance than Skymont as if they were low-efficiency cores.
There are still a few months to see how these processors really work, but as we well know, many users are not too keen on this type of hybrid architecture because of the problems it causes instead of helping what it should, which ultimately leaves us in the situation of knowing how things will change by incorporating the Skymont cores that are much better than the Crestmont, but with two more additional cores of this generation.
