Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake processor appears for the first time: 24 threads. Two things are strange.

Intel will launch ArrowLake and LunarLake processors this year, focusing on high performance and low power consumption respectively. ArrowLake will return to the desktop, and the interface will be changed to LGA1851. Now its engineering samples have appeared for the first time. From the monitoring information,The frequency of this sample is only 3GHz and there are 24 threads, 2 more than the current Meteor Lake Core Ultra.

The most likely reason is that the E-core small core has been increased by two, changing from 6+8+2 specifications to 6+10+2.

Of course, 7+8+2 can also make up 24 threads, but this combination is unlikely, or there may be no low-power E core, such as an 8+8 combination.

The strange thing is,There are rumors that ArrowLake will cancel hyper-threading technology. These 24 threads may be 24 physical cores., if so, it would be a leap, such as combinations such as 8+16 and 16+8.

Another point,At least the current test platform does not support the AVX-512 instruction set.

There are rumors that Intel's next-generation processor does not physically support AVX-512, but it may just be that the chip firmware or the motherboard BIOS is not turned on.

After all, Intel has planned to allow the E-core small core to also support AVX-512 in the future, so there is no reason to cancel it suddenly.

PS: Meteor Lake Core Ultra also has a new product exposed for the first time. The name is very strange and has become a four-digit number.Core Ultra71002H, or the specifications of 6+8+216 cores and 22 threads, with a base frequency of 3GHz.