There seems to be some truth to the rumors of the last few weeks: Arrow Lake-S is now supposed to be the next offshoot in the desktop and will be released with the new 800 chipset series, which in view of a new processor socket comes as no surprise. Meteor Lake keeps its focus on notebooks.
However, the information is still a bit thin or confusing, because the small but fine final detail is missing to complete the picture. That Meteor Lake will first enjoy the focus on the mobile segment is taken for granted, it's not for nothing that Intel will bring a Raptor Lake refresh to the desktop this year and not a real novelty. Intel recently denied the rumors that there are problems here, all products are on schedule, CEO Gelsinger explained personally. That means Meteor Lake is coming later this year, in whatever form.
Focus on Arrow Lake-S
The new LGA 1851 processor socket, which comes after will follow. Since Intel always provides suitable chipsets to the side, an Intel 800 chipset is also used here, after all, the 700 generation is currently present. The question of all questions remains: Is there a real Meteor Lake-S coming, a supposedly renamed one or a real Arrow Lake-S?
Socket LGA 1851 succeeds Socket LGA 1700 (Picture: Benchlife)The original planning of a Meteor Lake-S with 6P and 8E cores seems to have been shelved, as has recently been reported several times. As before, Arrow Lake-S should also appear as a version with 8P + 16E cores, and would thus represent the third generation in this configuration, after Raptor Lake in 2022 and Raptor Lake Refresh in 2023. The previously planned Meteor Lake-S with However, fewer cores could still appear under the Brand Arrow Lake-S, in the same way that Intel is currently selling the Alder Lake-S as the Raptor Lake-S: under the hood of the smaller Raptor Lake-S, everything has remained the same, but the name is new.
Benchlife reports that Lunar Lake could also remain in the same socket as the successor to Arrow Lake so that it doesn't just stay with one CPU generation for the new processor socket finally. However, like Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake also focuses on the notebook. Since AMD always swings longevity as a club, Intel would probably be well advised not to launch a new platform after just one CPU generation and at least to put some form of Lunar Lake on this package.
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