[Hardware] Up to 40 cores in the processors that Intel will launch in 2025

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Although there are still a few days left until the next generation of Intel processors (Raptor Lake Refresh, or Intel Core 14) arrives, the company has been working on its next generations for some time; one of them will be Arrow Lake Refresh, whose launch date has currently been set for 2025, and today we have interesting news about it, as it has been announced that it will have processors that will have a whopping 40 physical cores... Do we really need so many?

As usual, the source of this information has been YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead, who has presented Intel's latest roadmap for its processor families in recent years.

Intel Arrow Lake with up to 40 cores, for what?
In the video, some rumors that we already knew are reiterated and the most recent information about Intel's roadmap for the coming years is confirmed, but what we consider most interesting is that it mentions something that had not been talked about before: the count of cores that Intel will mount in its Arrow Lake Refresh family, which is already curious due to the simple fact that they talk about a transition generation between Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, baptized as "refresh" as is already common in this company.

We will start by mentioning that the Arrow Lake generation will use a new socket, the LGA 1851, and it is expected that the first processors of this generation will be part of the Core Ultra 200 series. This architecture, from what is known so far, will combine up to 8 Lion Cove cores (P cores) and up to 16 Skymont cores (E cores) within the SoC die.

 

 

The fact is that, as we have already mentioned, among Intel's plans there is even an update of this family of processors, which would maintain the same lithography but which, according to the source, would double the number of efficiency E cores, which would pass from a maximum of 16 to 32. Thus, we would be dealing with processors that, at their top of the range, would have 8 P cores for performance and 32 E cores for efficiency, adding up to a total of 40 physical cores and 48 process threads. It should be mentioned that we already saw this situation in Alder Lake and Raptor Lake, where the E cores were also doubled, so it is nothing strange or new.

What is still curious is that the E cores, smaller and more efficient but less powerful, are the ones that are seeing their number grow almost without measure while the P cores, which are the ones that truly provide greater performance to the processors , they seem stuck at 8.

And what does AMD have to say about it?
In the past, especially if we go back to the Bulldozer era, AMD always stood out above Intel in core count, and back then we were talking about AMD managing to catch up with Intel in terms of performance thanks to brute force : Their processors were less powerful but since they had many more cores, the performance they provided was comparable.

 

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