Intel Arrow Lake is the name we know by future Core Gen15 processors, successors to the upcoming Intel Raptor Lake Refresh. The latter should be released sometime in October and will continue to use the LGA1700 socket, meaning we won’t have to change motherboards to use them.

On the other hand, with the arrival of Intel Arrow Lake premiere and new socket, LGA1851and we will have a new platform that, according to the latest information, will offer a lifespan of around two years, that is, it will be preserved until 2026. This data fits into the strategy that the chip giant follows with its latest generations, although the LGA1700 socket is an exception, since it will have a lifespan three years.

Over the past few months, information about Intel’s Arrow Lake processors, as well as the LGA1851 socket and its platform, has continued to emerge. Many of those leaks they are very trustworthy and have considerable valueand I know many of you are considering waiting for the release of this next generation to upgrade your PC or build a new one.

That’s why I wanted to collect in this article most important keys withAbout this new generation of Intel, I limit myself to the most reliable sources and the most trusted data. So you can have the most important things about Intel Arrow Lake organized in a single article and you can be sure that all these keys have high degree of reliabilityalthough they have not been confirmed.

The LGA1851 socket will have a lifespan of two years

Its launch will take place in the second half of 2024 and will remain until 2026, the date when the new socket that accompanies the new generation of processors will arrive. It is not clear which generation will mean a socket change, Intel Lunar Lake or Panther Lake, but we can bet on one of the two.

This new socket will be integrated into motherboards that will limited to DDR5 memory, that means there won’t be any alternatives with DDR4 memory. Said memories will run natively at 6400 MHz (without throwing in overclocked profiles) and all these new LGA1851 socket motherboards will be based on 800 series chipsets. This chipset will offer connectivity support. Wi-Fi 7 and 5GbE Ethernetand will be divided into Z890, W880, Q870, B860 and H810 series.

It is expected a a significant increase in the number of PCIe Gen5 lanes via the motherboard’s PCH and also via the CPU, although we don’t have any concrete details on that yet, so we’ll just have to wait for more information for now. In any case, it makes sense, especially considering that with current motherboards and CPUs, when we put a PCIe Gen5 SSD in the M.2 slot attached to the CPU, we make a PCIe Gen5 x16 slot for the graphics card. lose PCIe lines and is configured in PCIe Gen4 x8.

Intel Arrow Lake will have higher IPC and will use Intel 20A node

It is expected a Double digit improvement in CPI vs. Meteor Lake, so the boost against Raptor Lake Refresh will be even greater. This means that we will face a generation that will offer higher performance from core to core and MHz to MHz. High performance cores will use the architecture lion’s bayand high performance cores will be based on the architecture Skymont.

It was also rumored increase the L3 cache to 3MB per core in high-performance cores, this generation is said to feature Intel Arc Alchemist Refresh GPUs and to be manufactured in node intel 20A. This new node will mean a jump to RibbonFET transistorsand the chip giant will maintain a structure in “tiles” (blocks) to integrate CPU, SoC and GPU components.

We’ve also seen rumors pointing to the use TSMC 3nm node, so nothing is definitive yet. If all goes according to plan, the launch of Intel Arrow Lake for the desktop will take place in late 2024, probably in October of that year. This new generation of processors will hit the market in configurations up to 8 high-performance cores and 32 high-efficiency cores, and it’s very likely that the Core i3 Gen15 will finally stop having 4 cores and 8 threads and make the jump to a 6 cores and 12 threads configuration.

For the rest we can expect Intel keep HyperThreading in powerful cores and it is likely that we will find a slight increase in the maximum operating frequencies in the most powerful models. It will be interesting to see what the chip giant achieves with this new generation at the consumer level thanks to the use of two new architectures and a new manufacturing process.