Raptor Lake Wafer Pictured During Intel Tech Tour Israel Event
Images of wafers filled with Intel Raptor Lake were taken at the Intel Tech Tour Israel event. A photo of his 12 inch wafer was shared by Tom’s Hardware Editor. Paul Alcorn Via Twitter. I opened it up on my state-of-the-art PC and yelled “enhance” at the screen to create the image below.
Pixel peek at the enhanced section and you can very easily see the 8 performance cores (P cores) on the highlighted rectangular die. It’s not so easy to see that the 16 Efficiency Cores (E-cores) are also present (but they are). That’s right, this is a Raptor-Lake-S die, which can be aimed at creating an Intel Core i9-13900 tier CPU, as long as it hits the grade.
No need to reach for pixel rulers or use relative scale calculations to estimate die size. Previous information gathered in all Raptor Lake articles has already confirmed that the die has a size of 23.8 x 10.8 mm and an area of 257 mm^2. This is nearly 25% larger than the Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake die size. Both 12th and 13th Gen Intel Core processors are built on the Intel 7 process, formerly known as 10nm Enhanced SuperFin.
die area |
die dimensions |
core |
process |
|
---|---|---|---|---|
Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K |
257mm^2 |
23.8×10.8mm |
8 P cores | 16 E cores |
Intel 7 |
Alder Lake Core i9-12900K |
208mm^2 |
20.4×10.2mm |
8 P cores | 8 E cores |
Intel 7 |
Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K |
281mm^2 |
24×11.7mm |
8 P cores |
14nm |
Comet Lake Core i9-10900K |
206mm^2 |
9.2×22.4mm |
10 P cores |
14nm |
From above, we can see that Raptor Lake’s die is significantly larger than Alder Lake’s. This is surprising given that Intel has admitted that Raptor Lake is a filler. Intel made it because they knew Meteor Lake would take longer than planned. So, while Raptor Lake’s CPU configuration is different from its predecessor, things like the iGPU and I/O die are basically unchanged. So the additional die space should be accounted for (probably) by larger P cores, additional E cores, larger caches, and other things you’ll see at the big launch event.
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He’s a wafer full of Raptor Lake die. pic.twitter.com/dl2ClXz6ygSeptember 14, 2022
Intel’s Raptor Lake will be the last generation of the Core series to make as a monolithic die. One of the big leaps forward for Intel 14th Generation Core ‘Meteor Lake’ processors is the change to a mixed chiplet made by both Intel and TSMC under IHS.
For more information on Raptor Lake due to launch next month, check out Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake specs, rumored release date, benchmarks and more features.