Granite Rapids AP, Arrow Lake and Meteor Lake for the desktop, plus many socket and RAM configurations, reveals a leak on the Intel website. This allows a rough look at the timetable and supports rumors and previous assumptions, but also raises questions about, for example, Fischer Lake.
The information on the Intel's website does not contain any exact details about possible core configurations or even clock information, rather they specify the platform, the associated market segment and the exact socket and, in part, the RAM support via the code name.
Arrow Lake and Meteor Lake
An example is the future CPU Intel Arrow Lake: This solution is listed among other things as Arrow Lake-PX, which supports LPDDR5X-8400. The document also lists Arrow Lake-S with DDR5 support not only via UDIMM, but also via SO-DIMM and with ECC support.
Intel Meteor Lake comes in three versions: S for desktop, M and P for mobile, and RAM support up to LPDDR5X-7500. Recently, the rumors have been that Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake will be launched overlapping, Meteor Lake in notebooks and Arrow Lake in desktops. Both solutions use at least the same new desktop socket, and this is also stored: LGA1851-MTL-S Interposer – this was exactly what was previously traded as a rumor.
Lunar Lake from the year 2025+
Intel Lunar Lake is the code name for a future product that has already been officially confirmed by the manufacturer and will follow Arrow Lake. That's why Lunar Lake-MX also includes support for LPDDR5X-8500. A desktop variant has not yet been included in the documents, only a version for the mobile segment suggests that the right way is still to be found here. Since Lunar Lake will not appear in Intel 18A production until 2025 at the earliest, further areas of application are likely to be defined in the next two to three years.
Intel's manufacturing roadmap (image: IEEE)Solid sockets in the server
The new platform Birch Stream (BHS) in the server will bring some new big sockets. These inherit the newly introduced Eagle Stream platform around the LGA 4677 socket, on which the Intel Sapphire Rapids and Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs find their place. Birch Stream then takes over with CPUs from the Intel Granite Rapids family. There will be extensive releases from this CPU for every market segment. At the top is a new AP platform that hasn't been served since Cascade Lake AP. Birch Stream-AP uses an “LGA7529-BHS-AP Interposer” in several variants.
With Birch Stream in the very large version, the name Sierra Forest also swims along. This can only be found once in the list, exactly this solution was named for the first time over a year ago in this combination with a huge socket and Intel's roadmap also named it last.
Granite Rapids will also be available as a D version, replacing Ice Lake-D. The two soldered sockets BGA3898 and BGA4368 are stored for this purpose. The standard socket of Granite Rapids-SP, as all regular server processors have been called internally for some years now, will apparently be the LGA 4710 socket, which can be found several times in different versions. But BHS-SP can also be found in the LGA 4677 socket – it remains to be seen to what extent this is compatible with the previous socket.
No guarantee for an appearance
As seen in the past, entries and even first tools for processors on Intel's website do not necessarily mean that they will actually make it to the market. Various offshoots of Cannon Lake and Ice Lake-S have been famous for this in recent years, which were already finished on the drawing board and the corresponding tools were made, but the product was ultimately rejected due to the much too late point in time and the production problems.
Again, some under-reported solutions may appear bigger in the future depending on how the market develops. It is not yet possible to deduce what is behind the entry on Fischer Lake, which was also discovered.