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Next year, Intel is going to release a new architecture called Arrow Lake. It is believed to feature many improvements over Raptor Lake, such as a new CPU and GPU architecture, a smaller node, and support for an entirely new platform known as LGA-1851. Keeping with the tradition of hybrid design, combining Core (Big) and Atom (Small) cores, Arrow Lake will introduce new microarchitectures known as Lion Cove and Skymont. Notably, the former is expected to introduce a larger L2 cache.
The transition from Raptor Cove to Redwood Cove is said to start with the upcoming Meteor Lake Core Ultra chips for mobile platforms. Eventually, this transition will extend to desktop systems using Lion Cove cores, as seen on the Arrow Lake die. The leak suggests Arrow Lake silicon will offer a noticeable increase in cache over the Raptor series, with an extra 1MB per P-core up to 3 MB.
As a result of these improvements, the next generation is expected to increase the cache memory per P-core by 50% compared to the 13th generation core and an impressive 140% increase over the 12th generation series. It is important to note that the exact sizes of the E-core cluster cache, L3 cache, and L4 cache have not yet been confirmed. Meteor Lake is also expected to integrate this type of cache, which could greatly increase the series cache.
Considering the evolution of Intel microarchitectures, the amount of cache memory has increased 6 times in four generations. This is especially notable since the Cypress Cove architecture only had 0.5 MB L2 cache.
