It appears that Intel is adopting AMD’s strategy of continuing to support older CPUs even after releasing a new design.
AMD has recently made headlines by releasing new central processing units (CPUs) for its older AM4 platform. This is despite the fact that the company introduced AM5 more than a year and a half ago. Currently, it appears that Intel is beginning to warm up to the concept of giving aging sockets a new lease of life. According to reports, the company is preparing a second update of Raptor Lake for the year 2024, and it will be geared for people who are on a budget. The Raptor Lake refresh “refresh” chips would be available alongside the company’s forthcoming Arrow Lake central processing units (CPUs), providing individuals who are currently using the LGA 1700 socket with an option to consider if they are not yet prepared to move to the new LGA 1851 socket.
A new line of low-cost central processing units (CPUs) that will use the Raptor Lake refresh architecture and be called Bartlett Lake is purportedly in the works at Intel. Bartlett Lake will be geared at OEMs who want an economical entry-level system, as well as gamers who don’t want to buy an all-new motherboard, memory, and CPU when Arrow Lake arrives later this year, according to Red Gaming Tech on YouTube, which is the source of this claim. Bartlett Lake will be a new motherboard that will be released later this year. This circumstance prompted AMD to experience some difficulties when it debuted AM5, as it needed an expenditure of about one thousand dollars for the central processing unit (CPU), motherboard, and expensive DDR5 memory sticks. It has been rumored that Bartlett Lake central processing units will be made available for desktop and H-class mobile devices; however, it is not known which generation they will be branded in for branding purposes (13th or 14th for example).
It would appear that the idea behind this tactic sprang from the fact that Arrow Lake will be a costly update, and Intel is looking for a more inexpensive alternative for those individuals. It’s possible that you would imagine that parts from the 13th generation would be quite inexpensive by that point, but people also want something “new” when they upgrade, so Bartlett Lake might be the solution. Considering that Red Gaming Tech has stated that these chips will be a refresh of the Raptor Lake refresh, the jokes really do write themselves here. They claim that there will be no changes made, with the exception of maybe increasing the size of the L3 cache.
Customers of Intel who were previously reluctant to upgrade to LGA 1700 because they were concerned that the technology will be discontinued after two generations of central processing units (CPUs) will no doubt be relieved if this story turns out to be true. Considering that it was supposed to be Alder Lake, then Raptor Lake, and then it was going to be replaced, this was the original intention all along. On the other hand, we now have Raptor Lake update to bridge that gap, and Bartlett Lake would be the fourth generation of chips that would support the socket.
If the chips are competitive in terms of both price and performance, then this is not a bad idea, and we will be curious to see if it comes to fruition. It was recently reported by AMD that they will be releasing a new AM4 X3D CPU at a price of $249. Therefore, it is possible that Intel may launch something new for gamers who are on a budget in this region. Intel may also wish to put to rest the stigma it has earned for not supporting its sockets for as long as AMD does. This is something that has simply become a fact of life due to the extraordinary endurance of AM4 technology.