A new and interesting rumor ensures that Intel Arrow Lake-S will arrive earlier than expected, and that this generation of processors will replace Intel Meteor Lake-S, which was supposed to launch between late 2023 and early 2024. Both generations will use the LGA1851 socket, that hasn’t changed, but the important thing about this information is that, in theory, Meteor Lake-S would be cancelled.

It’s important to keep in mind that this is all nothing more than a rumor at this point, so it may not come true, so We will take all this information with a grain of salt.especially after seeing the many contradictions that have appeared in recent days that have “confirmed and ruled out” the existence of Meteor Lake-S.

Going back to the Intel Arrow Lake-S, this new generation of processors will use the configuration 8 high performance cores and 16 high efficiency cores. They will use high performance cores architecture lion baywhich represents a tock on Redwood Cove, and the other is another tock on Raptor Cove, while the high-performance cores will use the Lion Cove architecture, which is a tock on the Crestmont architecture, which in turn represents a tock on Gracemont.

In case anyone is lost, I remind you that touch is equivalent to changes at the microarchitecture level to improve IPC and that with Intel Arrow Lake-S we would have two generation jumps compared to Raptor Lake-S, which means that the CPI difference between the two can be very large. It should also be borne in mind that this new generation of processors will make the leap to the Intel 20A node and that this will represent a very large advance compared to the current generations, as it is equivalent to 2 nm.

Overall, Intel launches three new chipsets to accompany the LGA1851 socket, H810, which will be the cheapest of the three and will be integrated into low-end motherboards; the B860 chipset, which will be a more complete and balanced solution and will power mid-range and premium mid-range motherboards; and finally the Z890 chipset, which will be the top of the range and will serve to revive the top boards of this generation and will be the only one to allow overclocking at the CPU level.

For the rest, we can hope that this new generation be limited to DDR5 memory, and it natively supports higher speeds. It will also support the PCIe Gen5 standard, and we may see changes to the total number of PCIe lanes, but that’s still up in the air, so we can only wait.