Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake processors have been spotted again, with more evidence seeming to suggest that these CPUs are going to be compatible with next-gen Alder Lake chips, theoretically ensuring a smooth upgrade path from the latter. . This latest nugget was highlighted on Twitter courtesy of a document sent to SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization), a non-profit organization that inspects the quality of the SATA specification. It was supplied by an Intel employee and is for an 'Alder-Raptor Lake PCH-S SATA Supervisor'.
Intel Alder-Raptor Lake PCH-S SATA Controller https://t.co/Y2Qo4nV61f pic.twitter.com/ERV1TL6nZW 12 Jul 13 See More In other words, this document would seem to teach that the chipset of the Intel's XNUMX series will support not only Alder Lake later this year when the two launch together, but Raptor Lake CPUs as well, with the latter apparently being the upgrade to the XNUMXth-gen silicon that's sure to appear next year. This isn't the first time we've seen official documents proving that Raptor Lake not only appears to exist, but is going to be compatible with Alder Lake, as XNUMXth-gen chips have previously appeared in a compatibility tech advisory. , as a leak from Intel talking about compatibility with the Alder Lake socket (LGA XNUMX).
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Alder Lake is a whole new way of doing Intel processors, and it comes with a new socket with a totally different shape, so it logically makes sense that the next generation of chips would stick with that socket (leaving compatibility and smooth, simple upgrades to Raptor Lake CPUs on 14-series boards, theoretically at least). Keep in mind that Raptor Lake is still gossip fodder now, although we've heard quite a bit about these processors now, and as previously mentioned, both of those sources are official Intel documentation. Raptor Lake is apparently going to offer some notable IPC (Instructions Per Clock) gains over Alder Lake with more powerful performance cores (from Golden Cove to Raptor Cove with full cores). We might still see a flagship XNUMX-core splitting eight high-powered cores with sixteen low-power cores, and the latter should make more of a difference even on a desktop than you might think, by the rules. If Raptor Lake is targeting a late XNUMX release, as current gossip seems to be, that could put it head-to-head with AMD's Zen XNUMX chips. Intel's XNUMXth generation successor in XNUMX is going to be Meteor Lake and that's going to see another big change for the chip giant when a XNUMXnm process is finally reached, and Lunar Lake will apparently follow it, presumably Next year. Today's best processor deals
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