RAPTOR LAKE GETS A REFRESH
Intel to get one iteration in before Meteor Lake
INTEL’S development is running at some pace, although Meteor Lake appears to have hit a snag, so Raptor Lake will be refreshed this year instead. New slides leaked from Intel show this is scheduled for this fall, almost exactly a year after the launch. Originally, the LGA 1700 socket was designed to run two iterations of processor but now gets a third. The range is to get a rework, but it’s not clear whether we’ll get more than fiddling with clock rates and boost configurations. They will use the same motherboard chipset—no news on a 34-core Raptor Lake glimpsed at Intel Innovation last year, however. We will also be treated to non-K versions of Raptor Lake, the mainstream 65W parts without the high boost clocks. These replace the 12th-gen Alder Lake chips and offer 5-10 percent more horsepower. So far, we’ve seen a Core i9-13900, i7-13700, i5-13600, 13500, and 13500.