Intel Arrow Lake-S processors will hit the market between the third and fourth quarter of this year and will successor to Intel Raptor Lake Refreshgeneration that was pushed by the Intel Core i9-14900K and which, as our regular readers remember, was a minor update with no changes at the level of architecture or manufacturing process.

Intel Arrow Lake-S will be one generation ahead of the Intel Raptor Lake Refresh processors, but at the architectural and design level, the differences between them will be huge. The new generation of Intel processors will use more tile design which we have already seen in Meteor Lake and its CPU block will be produced in Intel 20A nodewhich represents a gigantic advance compared to the Intel 7 node present in the Raptor Lake Refresh.

It uses an Intel 20A node extreme ultraviolet lithography second generation, employs All-Around Gate Transistors and also embraces technology Rear power supply. To this we also have to add the jump to two new architectures, Lion Cove in high-performance cores and Skymont in high-efficiency cores. Taken together, it’s clear why I said Intel Arrow Lake-S has everything to be one of the biggest generational leaps in Intel’s history.

Intel Arrow Lake-S will have four different configurations

They showed the first details that we had the opportunity to learn about this new generation of processors socket replacementand also maintain top configuration up to 8 P cores and 16 E cores. The first will use the Lion Cove architecture and the second the Skymont architecture.

The latest information keeps these keys and also leaves us with new details about series, ranges and configurations we can expect. Intel Arrow Lake-S will keep the v division four different series:

• Intel Core Ultra 200 K series with unlocked multiplier.
• Intel Core Ultra 200 series non-K with locked multiplier.
• Intel Core Ultra 200 F series with disabled integrated GPU.
• Intel Core Ultra 200 T series with reduced consumption and lower operating frequencies.

These four series will be divided into three ranges, the so-called Core Ultra 9, Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 5which will have four different configurations:

• Intel Core Ultra 9 and Core Ultra 7 275: 8 P cores and 16 E cores.
• Intel Core Ultra 7265 and Core Ultra 5255: 8 P cores and 12 E cores.
• Intel Core ultra 5 245: 6 P cores and 8 E cores.
• Intel Core Ultra 5 240: 6 P cores and 4 E cores.

It is not confirmed, but all the information that appears only ensures that Intel abandon HyperThreading technology in this new generation of processors. All of these processors will need a new LGA-1851 motherboard with an 800 series chipset, which means that current motherboards will not be able to upgrade to this new generation.