Intel is purportedly designing a next-gen core architecture from the ground up under the guidance of Jim Keller. This project is called Royal Core and is reportedly being built as a «Zen 5 killer».<\/b>
\nIntel has been having a somewhat tough time ever since AMD’s Zen came on to the scene. Team Blue is no longer the dominant player in the x86 space and it has been a somewhat equal fight with AMD mostly gaining the upper hand in nearly all of the markets except perhaps notebooks. While the chief architects of Zen were Michael Clark and Suzanne Plummer, renowned engineer Jim Keller also had a huge role in its design philosophy. Since then, Keller has left AMD and is now working at Intel. And according to YouTuber Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID), «Jim Keller is building a Zen 5 killer» at Intel. This Zen 5 killer is what Intel is allegedly working on under the leadership of Keller and the project is called «Royal Core». The Royal Core parts will reportedly make a full debut after 2024 in Nova Lake. AMD is expected to debut Zen 4 next year with Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) processors and Socket AM5 motherboards. So, it will likely be at least a couple of years before we see Zen 5 in action. Not only Zen 5, but Royal Core allegedly hopes to out-compete the Arm and M1 threats that Intel is currently having to face. In fact, apparently, we wouldn’t even have to wait till 2025 for that as Intel is already reportedly planning to take on M1 with its upcoming Arrow Lake design. Arrow Lake-P according to YouTuber AdoredTV will be a mobile CPU design with six P-cores, eight E-cores (6+8), and 320 EUs. Intel has been dedicating large portions of its chips’ die areas towards integrating more graphics in its mobile SKUs for a while now and the same is the case for Alder Lake architecture too which was announced yesterday. And it seems the practice will continue for Intel’s future designs as well. Other sources, like an ex-Redditor with the username «mooreslawisnotdead» say that Arrow Lake will be a valiant effort but won’t be able to topple the M1 in power efficiency. In fact, this is the same poster who leaked these alleged next-gen product codenames first, although the Royal Core moniker is new. While the user has since deleted his Reddit account for some reason after posting this, the information was saved by an AnandTech forum member. While all this is unconfirmed news which is still at least a couple of years away if authentic, it will be interesting to see what Jim Keller manages to accomplish at Intel as the man has a near-perfect track record so far. Source: MLID (YouTube) via Curmudgeon666 (AnandTech forum)<\/p>\n