The day before the release of AMD’s Zen 3 processors, Intel released a blog about, among other things 11. next-generation Rocket Lake processors will hit the market in the first quarter of next year. The company has now released more information about future processors.

11. next-generation Core processors will continue to be fabricated 14 with a nanometer fabrication process, but the Skylake architecture has finally been eliminated. The processor cores are based on the Cypress Cove architecture, a Sunny Cove architecture familiar from Ice Lake that was converted to an older process. The new core architecture brings with it a clearly better IPC (Instructions per Clock) than Skylake-based architectures. The processor graphics driver will be based on the UHD Graphics version of the Xe architecture.

Another notable innovation is support 20 for the PCI Express 4.0 band directly from the processor. The bands have been validated for use with one PCIe 4.0 x 16 connector and one PCIe 4.0 -M.2 connector. In addition, the processors include support for Intel Deep Learning Boost and VNNI technologies (AVX – 512 Vector Neural Network Instructions), an integrated USB 3.2 Gen 2 × 2 controller, and new overclocking features. Alongside the processors, the 500 series chipsets will also be released, but the processors will also be compatible with current 400 series motherboards.

Intel increased the maximum number of cores for its consumer processors 10. generation to ten, but 11. generation returns to a maximum of eight cores. The revamped memory driver now supports DDR4 – 3200 speed at its best and the Xe architecture integrated graphics driver is said to be about 50% faster than 9th generation iGPU. Processor media units have been updated to support at their best 14 – bit 4: 4: 4 4K 60 video compression with HEVC, VP9 and SCC codecs and 11 bit 4: 2: 0 4K 60 video compression with AV1 codec. The graphics driver can now support up to three 4K 400 – or two 5K 400 monitors simultaneously and on the connector side DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.0b are supported.

Source: Intel