Intel has confirmed that its 14th Gen Core lineup will be the upcoming Meteor Lake CPU family that is scheduled for launch later this year.
Intel Meteor Lake CPUs To Be Branded As The 14th Gen Core Lineup, Raptor Lake Refresh Might Stick To 13th Gen
In a recent document published by Intel, a listing of hardware support for Intel's Media SDK and oneVPL (Video Processing Library) GPU runtimes listed various generations of support, dating back to the early 5th Generation of CPUs.
In the chart leaked by Twitter leaker momomo_us, it has a listing under the openVPL Intel GPU runtime as "Future: 14th Generation Intel Core (MTL/Meteor Lake)." Based on the list, it looks like Intel has officially confirmed that the Meteor Lake CPUs will be branded under the 14th Gen Core family while Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs might retain their previous 13th Gen branding. Now, this is subject to change unless the company decides to rebrand the chips in the future, but that is yet to be confirmed.
There was a leaked roadmap showing the Raptor Lake-S Refresh branding that would fall within the desktop product lines and does not include mobile processors. The CPUs might use the refreshed branding that Intel has used on previous chips such as Core i9-13950K or 13905K. These chips will be supported by the 600 and 700-series platforms which would expand their Core family support to at least three generations of chips.
Now the more important thing is if Meteor Lake CPUs will be the only 14th Gen Core family. The existing 13th Gen Core family already consists of both Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs so if we might get another Core family within the 14th Gen family, it won't exclusively be Meteor Lake but that is something that only time would reveal since it's too early to talk about this.
Intel Desktop CPU Core Count Progression:
| Family Name | Total Cores | Total Threads | P-Cores | E-Cores | Top SKU Frequency | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Bridge | 4 | 8 | N/A | N/A | 3.90 GHz | 2011 |
| Ivy Bridge | 4 | 8 | N/A | N/A | 3.90 GHz | 2012 |
| Haswell | 4 | 8 | N/A | N/A | 4.00 GHz | 2013 |
| Broadwell | 4 | 8 | N/A | N/A | 3..80 GHz | 2014 |
| Skylake | 4 | 8 | N/A | N/A | 4.20 GHz | 2015 |
| Kaby Lake | 4 | 8 | N/A | N/A | 4.50 GHz | 2017 |
| Coffee Lake | 6 | 12 | N/A | N/A | 5.00 GHz | 2017 |
| Coffee Lake Refresh | 8 | 16 | N/A | N/A | 5.00 GHz | 2018 |
| Comet Lake | 10 | 20 | N/A | N/A | 5.30 GHz | 2020 |
| Rocket Lake | 8 | 16 | N/A | N/A | 5.30 GHz | 2021 |
| Alder Lake | 16 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 5.50 GHz | 2021 |
| Raptor Lake | 24 | 32 | 8 | 16 | 6.00 GHz | 2022 |
| Raptor Lake Refresh | 24 | 32 | 8 | 16 | 6.20 GHz? | 2023 |
| Meteor Lake | - | - | - | - | - | Cancelled |
| Arrow Lake | 24 | 32 | 8 | 16 | TBD | ~2024 |
| Panther Lake | 40 | 48 | 8 | 32 | TBD | ~2025 |
| Beast Lake | 80 | 96 | 16 | 64 | TBD | ~2026 |
News Source: @momomo_us on Twitter
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