Rumor has it that Intel is on shaky ground when it comes to its 40-core Arrow Lake CPU and that this may not turn up until 2025. Here’s the news.
Intel on shaky ground with its Arrow Lake CPU
A Twitter netizen with the username @OneRaichu dropped the bomb regarding this. They may or may not be credible, but the details they revealed are something to be concerned about, especially if you look forward to Intel’s Arrow Lake CPU.
@OneRaichu tweeted, “About 8P+32E ARL chip. Yes, it exists in the INTC’s plan, but very struggle. I don’t know whether can be born at last. If it can, I think it is like I9-9900K of the coffee lake, which will launch in next year after ARL-S.”
To interpret that tweet, while the Twitter netizen acknowledges that the company indeed has plans for this one-of-a-kind 40-core, 15th-gen processor, they said it is struggling to make it a reality.
@OneRaichu then expressed doubt on whether Intel can actually produce such a chip. They said that if it does, the company will still be able to launch it around two years from now.
Intel’s Arrow Lake is bound to pitch up later in 2024, so it is a no-brainer for everybody that it will be around not this year, not next year, but in 2025.
What is Intel’s Arrow Lake CPU?
Earlier this month, details about the features of Intel’s Arrow Lake CPU surfaced. First, Arrow Lake will form the 15th Gen Core family with up to 40 cores, including 8P and 32E cores, and a single performance boost of more than 30 percent.
Furthermore, this CPU is bound to get fabbed on the Intel 20A (2nm) processor that also constitutes backside power delivery and Nanoribbon (GAA) transistors.
When it comes to the performance cores, they will be upgraded to the Lion Cove microarchitecture. When it comes to the efficiency cores, they will leverage the Skymont core architecture.
Arrow Lake-S is also going to leverage TSMC’s 3nm mode for the iGPU tile. Plus, these Arrow Lake-S desktop chips are slated to feature a chiplet design with four tiles. These four tiles comprise Compute or CPU, Graphics, I/O, and SoC, with the latter two likely to leverage TSMC’s 5nm- or 6nm-class nodes.
Concerning their performance, nothing is official yet as well. But, speculators are saying it will be a 30 to 35 percent single-core uplift (15 to 20 percent PC increase), together with a considerable multi-threaded boost thanks to the massive E-core cluster.
With the iGPU, it should have the 2nd Gen Xe-HPC graphics architecture with a gaming performance that matches contemporarily low-end dGPUs like the GTX 1050, 1050 Ti, or 1650 even.
