Intel Meteor Lake-S Rumored To Be Cancelled Once Again, Arrow Lake-S 6+8 Core Desktop SKUs

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Rumors are once again pointing towards the cancellation of Intel's Meteor Lake-S Desktop CPUs & Arrow Lake-S to take its place sometime in 2024.

According to @OneRaichu who has been keeping a tight grip on the latest Intel client CPUs, it looks like the Meteor Lake-S Desktop lineup has once again been rumored to be canceled. Earlier, similar rumors were started by the leaker and while there were hints over the past few months which had been a glimmer of hope, it looks like the latest roadmap for Intel's Client CPUs doesn't include any Meteor Lake-S Desktop lineup.

I am so sad for Meteor Lake-S dead.R.I.P. (In the May RM for intel client, MTL-S is canceled final and ARL-S 6+8 die will instead.)

— Raichu (@OneRaichu) May 22, 2023

The emergence of a test tool and a leaked slide once again reignited the possibility of seeing Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs on the desktop platform. These CPUs would have existed alongside the next-gen Arrow Lake chips on the LGA 1851 socketed platform however, that no longer seems to be the case and instead, we might only be getting Arrow Lake CPUs in 2024 which would follow the Raptor Lake Refresh planned for 2H 2023.

The same leaker also points out that the Arrow Lake-S CPUs will come in 6+8 die configurations which marks a huge downgrade from the previously expected 8+16 die configuration. This would mean that the Arrow Lake Desktop CPU lineup will max out at 14 cores and 20 threads which is a lot less than the 24 cores and 32 threads (8+16) we get on the Raptor Lake-S Desktop CPUs.

Going back to 14 cores will not be good for marketing reasons since Intel will not only be offering fewer cores than its existing chips but also lower cores than AMD's 16-core Ryzen offerings. While Zen 5 isn't expected to