With Meteor Lake for the desktop yet to be confirmed (at least for this year), it has long been speculated that Intel will instead launch raptor lake sodawhich now aims to see the light in the moon August or during the third quarter of 2023.

The Raptor Lake refresh shouldn’t come as a surprise, so logically it would just have to be an improved version of a refreshed generation of Intel processors. This opens the door to reuse motherboards made for Alder Lake (a firmware update may be sorely needed here) and current Raptor Lake. The alleged August 2023 release date was made known through tweets posted by some leakers.

As a refresh of existing technology it is, a renovation of Raptor Lake would still use the “Intel 7” compute node. and they would implement small optimizations that will make them slightly faster than the current models. The compatibility with LGA 1700/1800 motherboards It is something that everyone takes for granted, although caution must always be maintained until an official announcement is made.

The processor models belonging to the future Raptor Lake refresh would include models that would work at 35, 65 and 125 watts. The real desktop generation leap may come next year, and we’ll see what generation Meteor Lake desktops have been discontinued. These latest rumors regarding the Raptor Lake update reinforce the fact that, if nothing else, Meteor Lake for desktop has been delayed.

We’ll likely hear more about Intel’s plans for its desktop processors in the future. Vision event, which the company itself will organize from May 8 to 10 in the American city of Orlando, in the state of Florida. On the 9th of the aforementioned month, he aims to be the one chosen by the chip giant to clarify its plans to launch desktop processors.