Intel CPU roadmap shoots for the moon with Lunar Lake drivers hitting Linux years ahead of launch

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Intel is looking far, far ahead of where it's at today according to a recent update to its Linux number one wood stack. While we're anticipating Intel Rocket Lake chips later this month, Intel is eyeing up Lunar Lake processors both three or to a greater extent years in the future.

There's non much to happen in the patch update beyond the name, Intel Satellite Lake, and check that this wish atomic number 4 a guest platform. The eyepatch was signed off by an Intel employee, at least, thus you know that there's certainly a properly chance that this CPU lineup will see the light of twenty-four hours. That said, a lot can convert in a couple of days, and processors can equal canned ahead their time.

Intel's ethernet drivers appear to embody some of the first to receive underpin for unreleased chips forwards of time. Yet it appears there's no real rhyme or reason to when they appear, Eastern Samoa VideoCardz notes, which means thither's not much to pick out from the timing of this patch's arriver.

Intel Lunar Lake should follow Meteor Lake CPUs, another unreleased and not yet detailed CPU architecture. Meteor Lake is supposed to symbolise the world-class 7nm Intel client processors. Though there is another generation before that, codenamed Raptor Lake. Again, we live rattling little about this one, though there are rumours that Raptor Lake will effectively personify a refresh of this twelvemonth's important new Intel CPU design.

That big new design will be Alder Lake, which represents a monumental shakeup in Processor architecture for the chipmaking company. So one can assume that all those thereafter will feature similarly disparate architectures from those or so today.

Intel Alder tree Lake is still on tag to arrive later this yr, and leave feature the 10nm Increased SuperFin process node for the first time on desktop. That's not the massive shift in design we're speaking about, however. That's the hybrid contrive of Alder Lake. These chip volition lineament busy eight 'bighearted' cores, built from the Golden Cove architecture, and up to eight 'little' cores. Those little cores will exist based on the low-power architecture usually found in Mote chips, but a newer and reportedly much more effective reading than what's around today, codename Gracemont.

These chips are too said to be the first to arrive with DDR5 RAM hold up on desktop, and we've seen heaps of storage manufacturers swan out the precursors to compatible kits over the past few months. PCIe 5.0 support is also incoming.

Intel Lunar Lake will likely take shape as a far more advanced version of what Alder Lake will arrive as subsequently this year, and so. Pending any Major shakeups.

For today, though, it's each eyes on Intel Rocket Lake, and whether it will be able-bodied to bring on catch-up with AMD's Ryzen 5000 chips.

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