Intel confuses by grouping Raptor Lake-U Refresh and Meteor Lake CPUs under new Core branding

The new rebranding for Intel’s client processors was unveiled final week with a new Core Ultra tier and the drop of the “i” denomination. This new naming scheme might be launched with the launch of the Meteor Lake sequence later this 12 months to make it simpler for customers to distinguish between product lineups. However, it seems to be like customers may nonetheless have bother figuring out what’s what as a new set of slides offered by Intel China present a reasonably complicated separation between the Meteor Lake fashions and the Raptor Lake Refresh sequence which are launching on the identical time later this 12 months.

The slides in query weren’t publicized by means of official channels because the Raptor Lake Refresh sequence has but to see a correct international announcement. Now that the cat is out of the bag, Intel China proceeded to make clear what fashions might be included with the new Core branding. The Ultra Core sequence will characteristic Meteor Lake processors, whereas the Core 3/5/7 model with out the “i” will embrace Raptor Lake-U Refresh CPUs. Now for the complicated half: the Raptor Lake-HX Refresh high-end cellular CPUs together with the Raptor Lake-S Refresh desktop CPUs would be the final processors to characteristic the Core i3/i5/i7/i9 branding in addition to point out the variety of the era (i.e 14th gen on this case).

One doable clarification for this classification methodology could possibly be that the HX and S fashions are nonetheless produced on the Intel 7 nodes, whereas the U fashions together with the Meteor Lake CPUs make use of the new Intel 4 nodes. Intel hinted that the Meteor Lake sequence would solely characteristic environment friendly cellular CPUs with the new tile-based design, which apparently couldn’t be tailored for desktop and high-end cellular fashions in time for the late 2023 launch. The first desktop and high-end cellular CPUs to undertake the new Ultra and non-i Core denominations will probably include the Arrow Lake sequence launching in 2024.

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I first stepped into the wondrous IT&C world once I was round seven years outdated. I used to be immediately fascinated by computerized graphics, whether or not they had been from video games or 3D purposes like 3D Max. I’m additionally an avid reader of science fiction, an astrophysics aficionado, and a crypto geek. I began writing PC-related articles for Softpedia and just a few blogs again in 2006. I joined the Notebookcheck group in the summertime of 2017 and am presently a senior tech author principally masking processor, GPU, and laptop computer information.