It’s an interesting time to be Intel between rumors of an alleged Qualcomm takeover bid that’s bad the recent Fanfare around core Ultra Series 2 laptop launchers that’s good and ongoing drama over stability issues in its 13th and 14th gen desktop chips that’s bad there’s a lot going on.
So you can be forgiven for not remembering that we’re rapidly approaching the expected release window for new 15th gen desktop processors AKA Arrow Lake AKA core Ultra for desktop and and these new CPUs will
be crucial in bringing heat to AMD in terms of performance per watt in particular cuz right now those 13 and 14900 K chips are known to run pretty toasty so let’s jump into what we know so far about Intel’s 15th gen Arrow Lake CPUs so originally.
It was planned for these processors to be built on Intel’s 20a process as part of its ongoing 4-year road map but since then the company’s confirmed that like its Luna Lake laptop processors Arrow Lake will be fabricated by tsmc the tynes chip giant that builds everything from
qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite to Apple’s M Series S so’s using the firm’s 3 nanometer process given that the current 14th gen desktop lineup is built on Intel 7 it’s 10 nmet process this would be a substantial upgrade for Intel and based on what we’ve seen from the efficiency of lunar Lake core Ultra laptops it bodess well for fully-fledged desktop CPUs built on that same process obviously the other side of that coin is the loss of face from not being a able to keep the manufacturing 100% in house
and there’s been plenty of speculation online about just how much of an impact 20a would have had on the 15th gem processes had that now dead process been used a post on an anex Forum suggested we could have seen an approximate 15% gain in multicore performance with the switch to tsmc though.
We’re still expecting to see a considerable improvement over the current gen Intel says it’s still on track for 18a the successor to the ill fated 20a to launch in 2025 with its Clearwater Forest xon ships expected to be the first
manufactured on that next gem process details of the new socket for Intel’s 15th gen chip LGA 1851 have been out for a while now thanks to both 2D and 3D renders that were released by Enthusiast site Eagles lab reportedly LGA 1851 was originally intended for Intel’s cancelled meteor Lake s desktop processors however those were canned before launch so as a result we’re not seeing it until Arrow lake is arriving an LGA 1851 was also planned to be used for the midcycle refresh of the AO s desktop chips but in recent days it’s
been reported that that refresh has likely been sheld which would leave the first gen and I guess only gen Arrow s desktop chips as the only ones using this socket the proper successor to Arrow Lake Nova lake is also rumored to use
LGA 1851 but that’s far from confirmed at the moment and could change as Nova Lake approaches its likely 2026 launch window and the LGA 1851 socket is also expected to bring a slew of changes to the table with the first one being its ability to directly connect a dedicated pcie 5.0 4X interface to the
CPU this is in addition to the 16x Lanes going to the GPU meaning it’ll result in Native support for PCI 5.0 ssds that can achieve insanely High read and right speeds the overall physical dimensions of LGA 1851 will remain largely the same as the LGA 1700 socket with just a minor difference to the
Z height this is the from the top of the motherboard to the top of the cpu’s integrated heat sink so CPU Cooler manufacturers may need to churn out newer Hardware to fit the newer socket artificial intelligence is still
a Hot Topic right now and we’re expecting Intel to capitalize on demand for AI Centric silicon in its 15th gem processors with one or two caveats AOL Lake May utilize the Intel XE LPG plus GPU architecture which will benefit from extended Matrix extensions xmx which is an
AI acceleration engine Eng this would enable the new Intel chips to expedite data processing as well as boosting other areas like graphics and video performance Intel is set to Market Arrow Lake as the world’s first gaming CPUs with an AI accelerator AI has obviously
been a huge Focus for Intel’s mobile chips of late with Luna Lake laptops gaining Microsoft’s co-pilot plus PC branding however leaked specs indicate that aake will likely miss out on co-pilot plus certification with its onboard mpu rated at 10 tops that’s far short of the 40 tops requirement for co-pilot plus demanded by Microsoft Graphics wise the apparent use of first gen Intel Arc Alchemist GPU c as opposed to anything based on the newer second gen battle mage architecture from Luna lake is a curiosity to say the least
though let’s face it Gamers and other high performance users will
