The chip giant has confirmed that it will celebrate Intel Innovation on September 19. This event is one of the most important within the general consumer market, because in it we will find out the most important news of upcoming products that Santa Clara plans to launch.

Among the most important innovations we hope to see at the said event, the new Core Gen14 desktop processors undoubtedly stand out. According to the latest information we have seen, everything indicates that Intel will not end up releasing desktop versions of Meteor Lake and that it would fill the gap with processors Intel Raptor Lake Refresh.

That would be a pitcher of cold water, because in the end, Meteor Lake represents a big generational leap both in terms of manufacturing process (Intel 4) and in terms of IPC, since it uses new architectures in high-performance and high-efficiency cores. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly clear that this generation will be exclusively for small and compact laptops and computers.

Restoration of Raptor Lake it will retain the Raptor Cove architecture on high-performance cores as well as the Gracemont architecture on high-performance cores. There will be no changes in the number of cores and threads either, so in the end the only differences we would see in this new generation of processors would theoretically be the increase in operating frequencies and higher DDR5 memory support.frequency.

Current motherboards, equipped with the LGA1700 socket, will be compatible with these new Intel processors, although it will be necessary to update the BIOS. This caused a bit of a stir and led some to think that the Raptor Lake Refresh might contain some more important innovation, such as a switch to Crestmont architecture in high-performance cores, but that seems unlikely to me, really.

On the other hand, we also expect the introduction of new GPUs that will be a refresh of the Arc Alchemist series, which are tentatively labeled as Arc Alchemist+. As you might imagine, they will use the same architecture as the chip giant’s current generation of graphics cards, so we don’t expect big changes in performance or consumption.

However, it is possible that Intel will introduce new configurations with different specifications to better cover the lower class market and the middle class market. Currently, the company has only three products on the market, the Arc A380, which covers the low-end, and the Arc A750 and A770, which cover the middle class.

With all of this on the table, we wouldn’t have a true generation refresh of Intel CPUs and GPUs until 2024, the launch date Lake Arrow az Arc Battlemage. Keep in mind that Intel’s plan is not entirely clear at this time, so it’s subject to change.