Intel official confirmation: Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake new processors released this year, analyzing screenshots and key features of Lunar Lake operation

Lunar Lake has been identified as the true successor to the Meteor Lake, designed specifically for lightweight laptops; Arrow Lake, on the other hand, returns to high performance and is suitable for desktops, laptops (especially gaming laptops), and servers. The architecture of the two processors is similar, with the P-core being Lion Cove and the E-core being Skymont, and the core being Xe LPG. The manufacturing process for both processors may be Intel 20A, and Arrow Lake has confirmed the adoption of this process.

The screenshot of the Lunar Lake operation exposed on the internet shows that in Windows 11 Task Manager, it is equipped with 8 cores, 8 threads, 14MB secondary cache, 12MB tertiary cache, and frequencies of 1.8-2.8GHz. These pieces of information reveal some important issues:

1. The Lunar Lake adopts a combination of 4P+4E cores, which should have 12 threads, but only 8, confirming previous rumors that hyper threading technology has been eliminated. Hyperthreading technology was first introduced in 2002. After Alder Lake introduced a hybrid architecture, small cores were unable to support hyper threading. However, Intel did not follow up with small cores and cancelled the overall hyper threading. The small core does not yet support the AVX-512 instruction set, which has resulted in several generations of processors cancelling hyper threading technology, but Intel has planned to return in future versions.
2. The second level cache capacity is surprisingly larger than the third level cache, with each large core being 2.5MB and four small cores sharing 4MB.
3. The frequency is relatively low, but considering that this is an early sample of A1 step and positioned at ultra-low power consumption, the final frequency may not be too high. According to previous reports, Lunar Lake will offer two power consumption levels of 8W and 30W, supporting LPDDR5X-8533 memory and a maximum of 8 Xe cores for the core display.