
First official mentioning of Raptor Lake-S
Later this week we'll see the official availability of the Intel Rocket Lake-S processors, the final 14nm chips, and towards the end of this year, we can expect the 10nm Alder Lake-S architecture. There were rumors about an Alder Lake Refresh and these are now a lot more concrete as Intel has officially mentioned Raptor Lake-S on its repository website.VideoCardz speculates Raptor Lake-S may see the light of day as the 13th Gen Core generation. Just like Alder Lake-S, the Raptor Lake-S processors will use the new LGA1700 socket.
According to the rumor mill, Raptor Lake-S is slated for a 2022 release. A recently leaked slide claims Raptor Lake will offer hybrid CPU core changes for enhanced performance and CPU cache enhancements for better gaming performance. Raptor Lake will see a mobile and a desktop release.