Intel Is Introducing A New Letter For Lunar Lake: Meet The Core Ultra 5 234V
Intel Is Introducing A New Letter For Lunar Lake: Meet The Core Ultra 5 234V
The upcoming generation of Intel’s chips will get a bit confusing, to say the least. You have Arrow Lake expected to take the lead on desktop and high-performance laptops segment, and then you have Raptor Lake that is once again refreshed for the Core 200 series.
And then there’s Lunar Lake that is set to supersede Meteor Lake – all of which will share the same “Core (Ultra) 2xx” naming, and admittedly it’s less straightforward than AMD’s naming scheme, which still managed to provide a clear idea on what the number stands for as far as architecture and segmentation goes (albeit Team Red also received some criticism for it). However, it looks like Intel is at least trying to avoid making the naming situation worse.
The reason is down to this new CPU spotted by @miktdt, which found a listing of the Lunar Lake CPU in the form of Core Ultra 5 234V. The text file reveals that this processor will have 8 cores and 8 threads, further confirming that Lunar Lake will no longer feature Hyper-Threading, a longstanding feature found in Intel CPUs as far back as 2 decades ago.
Intel Corporation Lunar Lake Client Platform/LNL-M LP5
Detected 3100.000 MHz processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 5 234V 2.10GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0xbd, stepping: 0x1)
cores per package: 8
threads per package: 8https://t.co/eDZ71yTO2o— Michael (@miktdt) April 4, 2024
Interestingly, the CPU model name comes with a ‘V’ suffix instead of ‘U’ found on all low-power laptops today from both Intel and AMD alike. It’s not exactly clear what ‘V’ stands for, but we can make an educated guess here.
Several years ago, Intel attempted to differentiate the 15W-class and 7W-class (fanless) by giving the latter the ‘Y’ letter, though not as a suffix (i.e. Core i7-7Y75). Given the CPU model number that ends with ’34’ – which denotes the fanless variants of Meteor Lake CPUs (whereas standard 15W+ parts are numbered ’35’), Team Blue may want to further differentiate these two classes of low-power chips by giving the fanless variant a distinct letter suffix instead of a single-digit change.
In any case, the Lunar Lake-based CPUs will eventually face Qualcomm’s much-anticipated Snapdragon X Elite S0Cs and AMD’s Zen5-based Strix Point APUs by the time it launches later this year – competition in the laptop space is about to heat up once again.
Source: Videocardz
Pokdepinion: The company probably should get a new naming that makes it easier differentiating between core architectures.
