Latest Intel Arrow Lake CPU Sightings Prove Hyperthreading Is No More

Latest Intel Arrow Lake CPU Sightings Prove Hyperthreading Is No More

As speculations brewed alleging Intel may ditch hyperthreading for its upcoming CPU architecture, the latest leak by @momomo_us (on Twitter/X) has further proved that Team Blue may have finally put the nail on this longstanding technology in its coffin.

From this leak, there are two distinct CPUs each with different specs. The first one is a 20-core, 20-thread processor that lists a 2.3GHz clock speed (presumably base clock), while the other part is a higher-end variant with 24 cores, 24 threads, and a clock speed of 3.0GHz (keep in mind that clock speed is unlikely to be final, as with the nature of engineering samples). Both lack AVX-512 – an instruction set that Intel eventually ditched in recent consumer designs – despite that AMD is soon implementing it for its upcoming Zen5 architecture.

Notably, the exact core configurations of both CPUs are also unspecified in the log. There can be several combinations – but 8P+16E is most likely what the 24-core part turns out to be. They are also expected to feature a pair low power island cores (LPE-cores) just like the Meteor Lake chips that we know today, though it’s not clear if they will be counted as part of the official core count (for reference, Meteor Lake’s core count combines all three core types).

The upcoming CPUs will also be using a brand new socket, LGA1851, set to supersede the LGA1700 socket that has been used since Intel’s 12th-gen processors. The new socket has already found its way into embedded systems utilizing a special variant of socketed Meteor Lake chips, but it will see the official consumer release later this year through 800 series motherboards before Arrow Lake is officially unveiled.

Source: Videocardz

Pokdepinion: Interesting to see how the performance looks like without hyperthreading present.