Intel is showcasing a wafer full of Raptor Lake dies here at Innovation 2022 in San Jose, but upon closer inspection, the wafer contains the as-yet-unannounced 34-core Raptor Lake processor. It became clear that there is This is exciting as Intel already announced its Raptor Lake chips today with a peak of 24 cores, but there was no mention of a 34 core model.
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A closer look at the wafer reveals that the design is not that of a standard Raptor Lake CPU. As you can see, the cores are not horizontally he’s in two rows like you see in a typical Raptor Lake die (his second slide in the album above shows the Raptor Lake-S desktop his You can check Intel’s diagram of the chip). What’s more, instead of the familiar rings seen in Intel’s desktop PC chips, it looks like the cores are interconnected in a mesh, much like the Ice Lake model we’ve seen before (3rd album image).
The presenters were unaware that this was the announced 34-core chip, and the booth was confused. Booth After discussions with his staff and predictions that these would be Ice Lake processors, the presenter provided proof. The back of the die says “Raptor Lake-S 34-Core.”
This die looks larger than the die that would be inserted into a standard desktop PC with an LGA 1700 socket, and it looks too big to fit inside the package. This means it will likely be a CPU for the workstation market. Additionally, the die contains 34 different core regions that appear to be connected by a mesh. In other words, they are all high-performance cores (p-cores) and the design does not include quad-core clusters of e-cores.
When we first spotted the wafers at the booth, it wasn’t immediately apparent that the dies were larger than the desktop dies we saw in Israel (see image below).After discussion with booth staff and Dr. Ian Cuttress more than moorethe booth staff, who had no idea these were unannounced CPUs, discovered a sticker underneath and realized that this was a wafer of unannounced CPU silicon.
This is breaking news…we’ll update with a detailed analysis soon.
