Intel's Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years

Intel Meteor Lake CPU.

After years of using the same fundamental layout of processing cores in its desktop CPUs, it looks like Intel will mix things up a little with its forthcoming Arrow Lake architecture. Instead of two rows of main, or Performance-cores, followed by several banks of Efficient-cores in recent designs, Arrow Lake might switch to a repeated sequence of blocks, containing four P-cores and two banks of four E-cores. And it could all be down to the use of rentable units.

ARL-S looks something like this? pic.twitter.com/WnOr2QR43KJanuary 18, 2024