The beans appear to have been spilled regarding Intel's Twin Lake lineup of CPUs, via Jaykihn at X. These processors are expected to succeed the low-power Alder Lake-N series. After Intel abandoned its "Celeron" and "Pentium" brands, its sub-10W offerings for embedded systems and mini-PCs were stamped with the "Intel Processor" tag. The new Twin Lake processors are, reportedly, still based on Alder Lake silicon with minor clock speed improvements across the board.
This practice of refreshing older architectures and selling them in parallel with current-gen offerings isn't new. Intel launched the Core 100 lineup side by side with Meteor Lake, featuring Alder Lake dies. Likewise, leaks allege that a new Core 200 lineup is in the works, also based on the now three-year-old Alder Lake architecture. As for N-series processors, tight margins probably prevent Intel from porting its latest Skymont and Lion Cove cores into these CPUs. Just to chip in, rumor has it that a new Wildcat Lake family could serve as a proper next-gen replacement for Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake processors.
