Intel, According to Moore’s Law is Dead, Intel will introduce 14th Generation Meteor Lake CPUs in 2023 and 15th Generation Arrow Lake CPUs in 2024. Intel has now verified both of these lineups, including the generations beyond the Lunar Lake and Nova Lake codenames. The most important aspect of the newest video is that both families will use a brand-new socket called LGA 2551.
The present LGA 1700/1800 socket, which supports both 12th and 13th generation Alder Lake CPUs, will be replaced by the Intel LGA 2551 socket. Every two generations, Intel is known for upgrading to newer sockets. CPUs from the 10th and 11th generations were also supported by the LGA 1200 socket. While the socket remains unchanged, each CPU delivers a slew of I/O advances made possible by newer CPUs. Because we see numerous chipset revisions and updates on the same socket, AMD and Intel follow the same method.
The Intel LGA 2551 socket for Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs will be 38mm x 46mm, only slightly larger than the present LGA 1700 / 1800 socket, meaning that the 2551 pins will be packed in tightly compared to current designs to conserve space on mainstream platforms. The Intel LGA 2551 socket will be 751 pins larger than Intel’s current mainstream socket and 833 pins larger than AMD’s AM5 socket, making it the largest for mainstream desktop PCs (LGA 1718). Now that the socket is out of the way, let’s take a quick look at the Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake CPU families.
Meteor Lake 14th Generation Intel CPUs
The 14th Generation Meteor Lake CPUs will be game changers due to their unique tiled architecture technique. The new CPUs, based on the ‘Intel 4’ manufacturing node, will provide a 20% increase in performance per watt via EUV technology and are anticipated to ship in the second half of 2022. The first Meteor Lake CPUs are expected to ship in the first half of 2023, with general availability later that year. The desktop components are scheduled to be available in the second half of 2023, competing with AMD’s Zen 5 CPUs.
Meteor Lake CPUs, according to Raja Koduri, would feature a tiled Arc graphics powered GPU, resulting in a whole new sort of graphics on a chip. It is no longer an iGPU or a dGPU, but rather a GPU (Tiled GPU / Next-Gen Graphics Engine). Meteor Lake CPUs will employ the brand new Xe-HPG graphics architecture, which will enable higher performance while retaining the same level of power efficiency as current integrated GPUs. This will also allow for better support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and XSS, which are presently only available in the Alchemist lineup.
CPUs from Intel’s 15th generation Lunar Lake family
Arrow Lake is the sequel to Meteor Lake, and the 15th Generation lineup contains numerous changes. While Meteor Lake will be socket compatible, the Redwood Cove and Crestmont cores will be replaced with the new Lion Cove and Skymont cores. The increased core counts, which are expected to be 40/48 on the new SKUs (8 P-Cores + 32 E-Cores), will almost certainly provide a major boost.
A previous leak verified the desktop ‘K’ series mainstream parts. According to reports, the performance is comparable to AMD and Apple processors, signifying a significant boost. There is currently no information available on the GFX Tile, however, it should have an improved architecture or more Xe cores. The I/O tile will be integrated with Neural Engines (VPU), which will be comparable to those seen on Meteor Lake and will use low-power Atom processors.
Surprisingly, Intel’s ‘Intel 4’ node would be bypassed in favor of 20A for Arrow Lake CPUs. Both Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake chips will retain their N3 (TSMC) manufacturing node for future core IPs, most likely the Arc GPU cores. The Intel 20A node, which employs next-generation RibbonFET and PowerVia technology, boosts performance per watt by 15% and is scheduled to have the first IP test wafers in fabs by the second half of 2022.
