(Picture: Walden Kirsch/Intel Company)A brand new report from sources in Taiwan paints a sobering image of Intel’s CPU plans for subsequent 12 months. The corporate will supposedly launch Meteor Lake this 12 months, then observe it up with Arrow lake in early 2024. Nonetheless, sources talking to DigiTimes report Intel will delay inserting its order for Arrow Lake’s tiles from TSMC till the tip of 2024. That will imply Intel wouldn’t have the ability to launch in quantity till someday in 2025. That might deal an enormous blow to its launch cadence and go away a large hole between Raptor Lake and its successor, Arrow Lake. Exacerbating the state of affairs is a brand new report that there will likely be no Meteor Lake desktop CPUs. As a substitute, it’ll be mobile-only, which is a rumor we’ve heard earlier than.
DigiTimes says its sources are “PC makers” within the paywalled article (via Techpowerup). The report mentioned Intel will use TSMC’s 3nm node for the iGPU in Arrow Lake. It was initially going to make use of that 3nm node for Meteor Lake’s iGPU tile, so maybe Intel is sticking with N4 or N5 as a result of that’s popping out this 12 months, supposedly. Since Intel gained’t be placing in its Arrow Lake order for nearly two years, we marvel what it is going to do for desktop customers between every now and then. As we reported beforehand, these delays have reportedly prompted Intel to plan a Raptor Lake refresh this year as an alternative of a Meteor Lake desktop half to exchange it. Now a reliable leaker is stating Meteor Lake desktop is certainly cancelled.
This leaked Intel roadmap was the primary point out of a Raptor Lake refresh. (Picture: Intel)
If that occurs, we’ll see a Raptor Lake refresh for desktop later this 12 months. Nonetheless, it’s unclear what CPU household would come after that. Assuming Meteor Lake isn’t changing it, Arrow Lake is the precise successor on desktop. If issues have been on the right track, we’d see Arrow Lake arriving in the midst of 2024 to exchange the boosted Raptor Lake chips.
Intel’s official roadmap exhibits Arrow Lake arriving in 2024, which is now in query. (Picture: Intel)
One of many causes these experiences appear semi-believable is these new CPU architectures all require node shrinks. It’s presently utilizing Intel 7 for Raptor Lake, then transferring to Intel 4 for Meteor Lake, previously generally known as 7nm. For Arrow Lake, it’s leaving FinFET behind and going to 20A with RibbonFET transistors. Although the compute tile will likely be Intel 20A, the iGPU will likely be from TSMC.
As all the time, till we hear it instantly from Intel, we needs to be cautious about these experiences. In Intel’s latest earnings report, CEO Pat Gelsinger affirmed Meteor Lake continues to be on the right track for a 2023 launch. Whether or not that can embrace a desktop SKU is unknown right now. “We’re at or forward of our purpose of 5 nodes in 4 years,” said Gelsinger within the report. “Intel 7 is now in high-volume manufacturing for each shopper and server. On Intel 4, we’re prepared in the present day for manufacturing, and we look ahead to the MTL (Meteor Lake) ramp within the second half of the 12 months.”
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