Intel China makes 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPU official

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We recently reported that Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs are expected to launch in October. The Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs have remained mere rumours until now, but it seems an official Intel social media account in China has confirmed their existence.

Intel's Bilibili account (via Tom's Hardware) has shared a post detailing Intel's plans for its next-gen mobile and desktop processors, including Raptor Lake Refresh and Meteor Lake.

The post confirms that Raptor Lake Refresh will be coming to both mobile PCs in low-voltage U and higher performing HX Series CPUs, and then also S Series desktop chips.

It also confirms another widely held expectation, that the chips will be branded 14th Generation with the exception of the U Series mobile chips, which will be named “Intel Core 1st generation processor”.

There may be something lost in translation there, but what we can say is that the new 14th Gen chips will be the last before Intel switches fully over to its new branding regime.

As we explained last week, Intel will be ditching the whole «Core iX» thing in favour of simply Core 3, Core 5, Core 7 and Core 9. Intel will also be adding a new «Ultra prefix. So, you can expect chips, for instance, branded Ultra Core 7.

The branding shift also sees the demise of generational messaging. So, there will be no „15th Gen“ Core. Instead, the generation will be retained within the full product name rather than referred to separately. That means it's likely we'll see an „Ultra Core 9 15900K“, or something close to that, though likely starting back at one again.

Of course, what we really want is some genuinely new CPUs for the desktop. Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs, which should appear before the end of the year, will almost certainly