What simply occurred? Latest patch notes revealed the names of a number of upcoming Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs and Lunar Lake cell processors forward of their official launch. If the data is correct, the portfolio will encompass not less than six Arrow Lake-S SKUs anticipated to launch in October and eight Lunar Lake fashions that Intel may unveil in September.
The names of the upcoming CPUs had been revealed by way of patch notes for CPU-Z v2.10, which added help for a number of new processors from Intel and AMD. Alongside the Arrow Lake-S and Lunar Lake SKUs, the itemizing additionally talked about a number of Ryzen 9000 Granite Ridge CPUs and Ryzen AI 300 Strix Level APUs.
The Arrow Lake-S lineup is rumored to incorporate not less than 13 SKUs at launch. Nonetheless, the CPU-Z patch notes solely listed the names of six fashions, together with pairs of Core Extremely 9, Core Extremely 7, and Core Extremely 5 variants. The lineup is led by the flagship Core Extremely 9 285K, a 24-core chip clocked at as much as 5.5GHz. It’s also anticipated to supply as much as 36MB of L3 cache and have a 125W TDP.
Listed here are all of the six Arrow Lake-S SKUs listed by CPUID:
- Core Extremely 9 285K
- Core Extremely 9 275
- Core Extremely 7 265K
- Core Extremely 7 255
- Core Extremely 5 245K
- Core Extremely 5 240
The v2.10 patch additionally added help for not less than eight Lunar Lake SKUs, together with the flagship Core Extremely 9 288V, rumored to have eight cores and a max enhance frequency of as much as 5.1GHz. Whereas the CPU-Z itemizing confirms a lot of the SKUs revealed by an earlier leak, one SKU conspicuously absent from the checklist is the Core Extremely 5 238V.
This is the complete Lunar Lake checklist as revealed by CPUID:
- Core Extremely 9 288V
- Core Extremely 7 268V
- Core Extremely 7 266V
- Core Extremely 7 258V
- Core Extremely 7 256V
- Core Extremely 5 236V
- Core Extremely 5 228V
- Core Extremely 5 226V
Intel is on monitor to launch its Arrow Lake-S desktop processors in October, whereas the Lunar Lake-V chips may launch in September. If the unofficial launch time frames are correct, PCs powered by Intel’s newest chips ought to be obtainable on retailer cabinets by the subsequent vacation season.