This year’s CES event has been utterly dominated by the constant talk and promotion of AI, and Intel’s Client Computing keynote meeting was no different. However, executive vice president Michelle Holthaus did say that Intel’s next CPU architecture for desktop PCs, codenamed Arrow Lake, is on target to hit the market in the second half of 2024. Oh, and it’s the ‘world’s first gaming processor with an AI accelerator’.
Unfortunately, very little else was said about Intel’s 15th generation of desktop chips but we already know several things about the design. The most important of which is that it’s an expansion of the latest Meteor Lake design, where multiple tiles (compute, graphics, SoC, IO) are housed together with the Foveros packaging system.
It’s a little like AMD’s chiplet approach with its desktop Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC models, except there the chips are physically separated in the CPU package. Foveros involves stacking all of the tiles onto a common layer, reducing the lengths of the various chip interconnects.
Arrow Lake is also expected to be the first commercial product to be manufactured using Intel’s 20A process node. This involves a significa…
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