Isn't it also supposed to be an edge/networking solution at first? I believe that, even if it were to came to the desktop, it'd take a while for it to be available through the regular sales channels.
Intel's Bartlett Lake-S Desktop CPUs are reportedly launching in 2025 in hybrid and P-Core-only flavors with up to 12 P-Cores.
wccftech.com
Looks like a consumer release? Though hard to say,
Though if its networking and edge, how much does it cost Intel to make a 12 + 0 die on a ring. Or would they just shave 12 working P cores off Sapphire Rapids or Emerald Rapids defective dies and stuff them in it?? If its the later a hard pass, If its the former I am probably a buyer.
Why would Intel go through hassle of making a new 12P core die on a ring bus for only networking and edge when ring bus is really for performance desktops?
Yeah you never know, but unless a CPU is built with high clock speeds in mind, what are the chances it would end up as fast as people wants it to be?
Is it close to being a Raptor with swapped cores, or are there other changes like number of PCIE lanes? (doubt it)
What about RAM speed? Is the multiplier unlocked?
Now that I think of it, the chance of it having an unlocked multiplier alone seems unlikely.
If it had just 4 more PCIe Gen 4 lanes awesome. Then could have 2 NVME off CPU without cutting into 16 Gen 5 video card lanes. I like 2 NVME SSDs. One for OS and one for games.
Lisa basically admitted in an interview a little while ago that AMD is sandbagging on core counts
Computex 2024 Press Roundtable
morethanmoore.substack.com
Well how about more than 8 cores on a single CCX that isn't C cores Lisa Su.
Per rumored even Zen 6 is still 8 regular cores and 16C cores and 32 denser cores on CCXs. That sucks.
So is she really saying they could put more than 8 on a CCX that are big cores and not the C cores??
Or just that maybe they would consider adding more to consumer chips as in 8 core CCX/CCDs, but maybe increase it to 3 instead of 2. No thanks. Threadripper already does that a whole bunch of 8 core CCDs.
AMD seems technically limited in their design unlike Intel and maybe struggles to get more than 8 on one die. Intel has more options and much bigger company. They just have not executed them lately or provided good ones to consumers or gimped IPC and latency and ECC required expensive SPR Xeon Workstation.