Monday, March 8th 2021
Intel "Lunar Lake" Microarchitecture Hits the Radar, Possible "Meteor Lake" Successor
Intel published Linux kernel driver patches that reference a new CPU microarchitecture, codenamed "Lunar Lake." The patch comments refer to "Lunar Lake" as a client platform, and VideoCardz predicts that it could succeed "Meteor Lake." the microarchitecture that follows "Alder Lake," which was recently announced by Intel.
Targeting both mobile and desktop platforms, "Alder Lake" will herald a new 1,700-pin LGA socket for the client desktop, and debut hybrid CPU cores on the form-factor. Expected to be built on a newer silicon fabrication node, such as the 10 nm SuperFin, the chip will combine high-performance "Golden Cove" big cores, with "Gracemont" low-power cores. Its commercial success will determine if Intel continues to take the hybrid-core approach to client processors with future "Meteor Lake" and "Lunar Lake," or whether it will have sorted out its foundry woes and build "Lunar Lake" with a homogeneous CPU core type. With "Alder Lake" expected to debut toward the end of 2021 and "Meteor Lake" [hopefully] by 2022, "Lunar Lake" would only follow by 2023-24.
Sources:
VideoCardz, OSOUL.org (Driver Patch)
Targeting both mobile and desktop platforms, "Alder Lake" will herald a new 1,700-pin LGA socket for the client desktop, and debut hybrid CPU cores on the form-factor. Expected to be built on a newer silicon fabrication node, such as the 10 nm SuperFin, the chip will combine high-performance "Golden Cove" big cores, with "Gracemont" low-power cores. Its commercial success will determine if Intel continues to take the hybrid-core approach to client processors with future "Meteor Lake" and "Lunar Lake," or whether it will have sorted out its foundry woes and build "Lunar Lake" with a homogeneous CPU core type. With "Alder Lake" expected to debut toward the end of 2021 and "Meteor Lake" [hopefully] by 2022, "Lunar Lake" would only follow by 2023-24.
11 Comments on Intel "Lunar Lake" Microarchitecture Hits the Radar, Possible "Meteor Lake" Successor
I just don't know yet what those little cores are equivalent to in terms of speed.
You're so off the mark... And you're correct otherwise, but how does that video illustrate anything?
If anything it shows Intel now offers i7 perf in an i3 package... Isn't that progress?Also missing where Intel is copying Apple. Big.little was borrowed from ARM and Intel's entire problem is that they can't really copy AMD yet. If they had, say 5 years ago, they'd have a product now that could compete in enterprise/server.