Intel: Some 'Raptor Lake' 13th Generation Core Desktop Processors Will Hit 6GHz
TEL AVIV—At the Intel Tech Tour 2022 currently underway in Israel, Intel teased, as part of an introductory presentation to journalists and analysts, that one or more CPUs in its upcoming “Raptor Lake” 13th Gen Core family will be capable of hitting 6GHz top clocks at stock.
That comes in the wake of claims by competitor AMD, at its Ryzen 7000 desktop-CPU unveiling event a few weeks back, that its upcoming flagship Ryzen 9 7950X CPU would be able to hit 5.7GHz Boost clocks under certain conditions.
As part of his introductory presentation, Isic Silas, corporate VP of Intel's Client Computing Group (CCG), laid out an impressive list of key processor milestones in which the extensive design and fabrication teams and facilities of Intel in Israel have taken part, going all the way back to the 8088 in 1979. Among these milestones is the pioneering work on Intel “Centrino” and its associated wireless technologies in the early ‘00s. (Centrino was foundational in the design of the modern laptop.) Silas also detailed the Israel sites’ integral part in all Core launches from 2015's 6th Generation “Skylake” to present.
The tease, though, came in the 2022 segment of the timeline that Silas showed, where he noted that Raptor Lake would be capable of 6GHz stock operation. He did not elaborate, however, whether that peak frequency will be on one core, or on a subset of cores in the chip or chips in question. (Presumably, it won’t be all cores!) He also did not elaborate in what specific Raptor Lake chip or chips this peak frequency would be possible.
This leads to speculation that hitting the 6GHz mark might be a similar or repeat situation to that of the special-edition (and hot-running) Intel Core i9-12900KS, which debuted after
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