Intel has a brand new Lake within the pipeline – a processor household title, in different phrases – and this contemporary sighting is Razer Lake.
VideoCardz observed that leaker HXL posted on X to air the brand new codename that Intel is outwardly mulling for its future desktop chips.
MSDTLGA1700: ADL-S, RPL-S, RPL-S RLGA1851: ARL-S, ARL-S R(❌)LGAxxxx: NVL-S? RZL-S?🤔 https://t.co/S4F8JCG2HrSeptember 23, 2024
One other well-known {hardware} leaker on X, Bionic Squash, then weighed in to look at that Razer Lake is certainly an accurate codename for the household of CPUs that’ll observe Nova Lake.
So, if that is right, proper now we’ve Arrow Lake desktop CPUs (ARL-S, the ‘S’ referring to desktop) arriving imminently, and as we heard not too long ago, HXL confirms that ARL-S R, which means the rumored Refresh, has been canceled.
Arrow Lake makes use of a brand new CPU socket and we don’t know what else will help that socket, however Nova Lake, due in 2026, will swap to a brand new socket. After Nova Lake desktop (NVL-S), based on HXL we’ll get Razer Lake (RZL-S) in that very same socket.
Take all of this with some warning, in fact, as with all of the chatter that filters down from the rumor mill. With Nova Lake supposedly coming in 2026, we are able to theorize Razer Lake might arrive in 2027 or 2028.
Evaluation: Razing the web opposition?
That is fairly attention-grabbing seen from the angle of earlier Intel CPU rumors, as what we heard earlier than was that Nova Lake was to be adopted by Beast Lake. Certainly, Nova Lake was framed as model 1.0 of Intel’s Royal Core venture – adopting Rentable Items (big efficiency cores that may be cut up into items, changing hyper-threading) – and Beast Lake was supposed Royal Core 1.1.
With the Royal Core idea purportedly scrapped, now we seemingly have Razer Lake as a substitute of Beast Lake. Now, Beast Lake was hoped to be a era to usher in monster gaming CPUs, so would possibly Razer Lake be an identical thought? Effectively, the title definitely has a gaming theme…
In all seriousness, we don’t know what Razer Lake is perhaps – if something – and no particulars are supplied right here, save for the socket. The title does appear odd, although, contemplating it’s Razer Lake and never ‘Razor’ Lake, closely treading on the toes of a sure maker of gaming peripherals and laptops in fairly an outlandish method, on the face of it. (What subsequent – Risen Lake?)
We’d say Razer is perhaps misspelled (or misheard), however a second leaker clearly backs up the title spelled in that approach. And we’re not almost at April 1 but. Razer Lake doesn’t actually make any sense to us, except it’s ‘razing’ within the sense of completely destroying the opposition (once more, doable a gaming reference?).
What additionally appears odd right here is that we solely have one era of processors down to make use of the LGA 1851 socket that Arrow Lake introduces. It might appear bizarre for Intel to have a collection of motherboards that was solely appropriate with a single era of Core CPUs, frankly – so are we lacking a bit right here? Is Arrow Lake Refresh set to get replaced with one thing, slightly than going straight to Nova Lake on a unique socket. Or will Nova Lake stick on LGA 1851 someway? (HXL definitely doesn’t suppose so).
This leak brings up extra questions than solutions, so we guess we’ll simply have to sit down tight and wait to see if anybody else pipes up with additional data on Razer Lake – or certainly no matter would possibly observe Arrow Lake. Are we actually going to straight to Nova Lake from Arrow?
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