With the delayed launch of Meteor Lake making 2023 a relatively quiet year for Intel, the upcoming year, 2024, is poised for an influx of new releases. Notably, the broader launch for the Core Ultra processors is still pending, and the 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh awaits the introduction of budget non-K SKUs.
Additionally, later in the year, we anticipate the arrival of Arrow and Lunar Lake alongside the 2nd Gen Arc Battlemage lineup. Let’s take a closer look at some of the highly anticipated Intel products expected to hit the market in 2024.
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The 15th Gen Arrow Lake processors are projected to mark Intel’s most significant performance leap since Alder Lake in the second half of 2021. These processors will adopt a chiplet (tiled) architecture, similar to Meteor Lake, featuring a 20A (2nm) CPU die and a 4nm (TSMC N4) tGPU. Upgrades include the Lion Cove (P) and Skymont (E) CPU cores, while the iGPU will leverage the Battlemage graphics IP. The Arrow Lake desktop CPUs are slated for a late 2024 launch, boasting up to 24 cores (8P + 16E).
Lunar Lake, designed as an always-on ultrabook/convertible SoC succeeding Lakefield, is expected to be fabricated on TSMC’s 3nm (N3B) node. These processors, with up to 8 cores (4P + 4E + 2 LP), share architectural similarities with Arrow Lake but feature a lower TDP ranging from 7-15W. The launch of Lunar Lake is anticipated alongside Arrow Lake.
In the second half of 2024, the 6th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, comprising Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids, are set to debut. Sierra Forest will lead the launch, offering up to 144 Crestmont “E” cores and 108MB of L3 cache. Granite Rapids will consist of three compute and two I/O dies, with a maximum core count of 56. Both Xeon lineups will be manufactured using the Intel 3 node.
The highly anticipated Arc Battlemage GPUs are also slated for a 2024 release, promising a substantial upgrade over Alchemist. With up to 7,168 shaders and 16GB of GDDR6 memory, these GPUs are poised to compete with the RTX 4070 Super, at least on paper. Anticipate features such as a large cache pool, enhanced ray tracing, XMX (Tensor) units, and competitive pricing. These GPUs are expected to be manufactured using TSMC‘s 4nm process node.
