Intel's Raptor Lake Next Rumored To Extend LGA 1700 Into 2027 With DDR4 Support

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A couple of days ago, an old rumor resurfaced and making the rounds claiming Intel would take a page from AMD's playbook and launch "Raptor Lake Next", a new series of processors for the now-venerable LGA 1700 platform. The idea re-emerged at Tom's Hardware, which noted that its correspondents had heard rumblings of the release repeatedly at Computex. Now, noted intel leaker Jaykihn has dropped some details on the new release, and they're not particularly promising.

Answering a question from an enthusiast, Jaykihn reiterates his previous remarks, explaining that the "Raptor Lake Next" family will consist of original Raptor Lake silicon, that it will have no new features, and that it does not consist of a new processor stepping. That means no Bartlett Lake (and thus no 12 P-core design), no support for the Intel Binary Optimization Tool, and likely no clock bump. At best, we'll see...

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