Forfaits Intel “Rafraîchissement du lac Raptor” Processeurs de bureau de base pour Q3-2023, “Rapides saphir 64L” HEDT au T1

Intel is planning to refresh its desktop processor product stack with new “Rafraîchissement du lac Raptor” SKUs in Q3-2023, according to a leaked roadmap. At this point it’s unclear if these are just new SKUs within the 13th Gen Core desktop product stack, or if they’ll form the 14th Gen Core family, much in the same way as “Rafraîchissement du lac du café” formed the 9th Gen Core, replacing the 8th Gen Core “Coffee Lake.” At this point we don’t know what constitutes “Rafraîchissement du lac Raptor,” but it provides Intel’s product managers with the opportunity to increase CPU core-counts across the product stack without needing a new silicon (the Raptor Lake silicon has 8 noyaux P et 16 E-couleurs), slightly higher clock-speeds, and other improvements. We don’t know if this will herald a new CPU socket or platform at this point, non plus.

The most interesting item in this leaked roadmap slide has to be the reference to the “mainstream workstation” segment, with products in the 250 W TDP bracket. The so-called “Rapides saphir 64L” could be a cut-down version of the “Nintendo Switch Lite Dialga” enterprise processor on a new socket, backed by the Intel W790 chipset. Le “64L” part of the codename could be a reference to its PCIe Gen 5 lane count of 64, which is less than the 112 available to the full “Nintendo Switch Lite Dialga” silicon in its W-3400 product-stack. It’s unclear if these processors feature a Core X branding like their predecessors from the “Lac Cascade-X” famille, or Xeon W. Besides fewer PCIe lanes, Intel could also segment these chips with fewer DDR5 memory channels, though both the PCIe and DDR5 connectivity will be much wider than those of the “Lac Raptor-S” mainstream desktop processors.