Intel Arrow Lake randomly appears in CPU-Z way ahead of release date

Up till now, most discuss has been of the Intel Arrow Lake processor launch being proper on the tail finish of 2024. Nevertheless, well-liked CPU spec-listing app, CPU-Z, has simply been up to date with assist listed for the upcoming CPUs, probably hinting at sooner arrival.

Arrow Lake is the direct followup to the just-launched Meteor Lake vary that’s at present showing in a whole lot of recent gaming laptops, thin and light laptops, and different cellular gadgets, together with the MSI Claw gaming handheld. Nevertheless, Meteor Lake hasn’t seen a launch on desktop. As a substitute, it’s the Intel 14th gen Raptor Lake chips that launched final yr that desktop players have been caught with. Arrow Lake, although, shall be used throughout each desktop and cellular when it arrives.

The CPU-Z replace, then, brings the software program’s model quantity as much as 2.09 and brings with it a changelog that lists “improved assist” for Intel 14th Meteor Lake cellular CPUs. Extra intriguingly, although, the software program additionally lists “preliminary assist” for the Arrow Lake desktop processor household.

What that preliminary assist quantities to is probably going that the builders have speculated on how the chips will talk their standing and added these flags to this system. Nevertheless, it’s additionally doable that they’ve someway acquired maintain of very early {hardware} or documentation from an Intel supply with a view to appropriately add the processor assist.

What’s extra, different upcoming chips have been added on this replace, with AMD’s Hawk Level and Hawk Level 2 (Zen 4/Zen 4c) chips additionally listed as getting preliminary assist within the replace.

The total changelog is as follows:

• Improved assist of Intel Meteor Lake and preliminary assist of Arrow Lake.
• AMD Hawk Level and Hawk Level 2 (Zen 4/Zen 4c).
• NVIDIA RTX 4070 SUPER (AD104-350).
• The benchmark can now be ran on a single coreset/cluster.

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