Pat Gelsinger took the opportunity of the beginning of this year, which means almost a year in office for him, and recapitulated the great work of Intel during this period. He broke up especially when it came to Alder Lake:
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Alder Lake. Suddenly … Boom! We’re back in the game. AMD in the rearview mirror in the client segment! And it will never be in the windshield again! We just lead the market! — Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel |
The company’s CEO sees Alder Lake not only as a product that got Intel back to the top, but even as the first product in a series that prevents AMD from depriving Intel of market leadership again.
As far as is known, Intel plans to release a generation of processors later this year Raptor Lake, which by tuning large cores gains ~ 10% extra core power and doubling the number of small cores (8-> 16) further increases multi core power. Against Raptor Lake will cost AMD Ryzen 7000 / Raphael with cores Zen 4, which differs from the current generation by a 5nm process, ~ 25% increase in IPC and increase in clock speeds at a multi – core load of ~ 5 GHz. As a result, up to a 40% increase in multi-core performance is expected.
Raptor Lake however, it is not a key generation, but rather a half-generation product that seems to have been added to the roadmap. Until recently, he sat in Intel’s roadmaps in the second quarter of 2023 Meteor Lake, Intel’s first desktop tile architecture. In addition, it is supposed to bring the Intel 4 process for x86 cores, originally referred to as Intel’s 7nm process, which according to this brand achieves better results than the 5nm TSMC generation, which AMD will use for Zen 4. At the end of the year, however, it began to be rumored that the second (spring) quarter of 2023 Meteor Lake will not catch up and will rather appear in the summer. Gelsinger probably assumes that Meteor Lake will be on the market either well before Zen 5 (which is at a short – less than annual – interval between Raptor Lake a Meteor Lake possible), or that it will bring higher performance shifts than Zen 5, or that Intel’s intergenerational shifts will not be as large as AMD’s, but due to higher cadence in new product releases, Intel will achieve more significant power shifts per unit time.
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