Intel Arrow Lake CPUs coming early 2024 but without Meteor Lake on the desktop

pcgamer.com:

Intel's CPU roadmap seems to be solidifying in front of our eyes. Or maybe it's about to get more confusing. I'm not 100% sure right now, but according to fresh rumours the new range of desktop chips coming our way in early 2024 should be Arrow Lake. 

I know, another Lake, and even I—a repository of more code names than any sane man should keep locked in their head—am getting lost in all Intel's myriad bodies of water. Arrow Lake is the theoretical successor to Meteor Lake, and the first with a compute tile manufactured on Intel's future superstar 20A production node.

Meteor Lake in itself is Intel's first chiplet processor, though the company is sticking with the 'tile' nomenclature instead. The new processors are being built on the Intel 4 node (nominally its 7nm node), and are due later this year as Intel promises Meteor Lake is still on track(opens in new tab). But seemingly now it's definitely not on the desktop.

The rumour mongers have been flipping around on Meteor Lake's desktop existence like some asphyxiating fish for the past year, and the latest noises reported by Benchlife(opens in new tab) claim that the desktop Meteor Lake-S chip sporting six Performance-cores and 16-Efficient-cores is being cancelled in favour of Arrow Lake. 

We've been pretty adamant all along that any Meteor Lake 6 + 16 design would have to be predominantly mobile-oriented(opens in new tab), and this latest rumour seems to lend credence to that assumption.

Instead of Meteor Lake, Intel will be bringing its Arrow Lake chips to desktop in the first half of 2024 with a maximum configuration matching today's 8 + 16 limits with the Core i9 13900K(opens in new tab) of Raptor Lake fame.

That actually seems like Arrow Lake is being launched