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Intel Sapphire Rapids
There is talk of a generation of Intel Lunar Lake and others, and it is still very far away, as they are to be preceded Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, Meteor Lake a Arrow Lake. Here we have the first minor discrepancy with previous data, as Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake are supposed to share the microarchitecture of the main cores (Lion Cove), but let’s look at what MLID tells us. –
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This is Keller’s Royal Core project, which is to build on today’s Core processors in some way, and the goal was to ensure that Intel gained leadership in efficiency over the ARM architecture and its implementation from Apple. Royal Core was originally supposed to use Lunar Lake, but it could be Nova Lake, so it can be said that this is not a contradiction with the previous information. Nova Lake were called processors with Panther Cove cores (probably), which is not the case with Royal Core, because it is a designation for different things.
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We look forward to the biggest leap in Intel’s processor generation since the introduction of the Core architecture, doubling the performance per tact (IPC) of the Golden Cove generation. It will come this year with Alder Lake processors and, according to Intel, will achieve a 19% higher IPC compared to Rocket Lake processors. However, IPC will of course grow in future generations, and Intel is also preparing SMT4 instructions, DDR5-7400 support, and an integrated machine learning accelerator for implementation by 2026.
It seems that even if Intel does not promise everything it promised and even these leaks will not be mostly true, we still have a very interesting and fast development of x86 processors. In the case of Intel, it will be driven by combat on two fronts, on the one hand with AMD and then with ARM (Apple), while in the server world NVIDIA and its own processors with ARM architecture (Grace) can also function as a whip on Intel.
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