dullard
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I can speculate on two possible reasons for that.Intel hasn't really said anything about Raptor Lake yet, I'm guessing that's because it's not very interesting and there's not much to say about it. They've been teasing Meteor Lake pretty hard though. They told us when they taped in the compute tile, what process it was on, showed us a test wafer, told us it was using 2nd generation Foveros, gave us a TDP range, showed us that there are three top tiles with labels indicating how the platform is disaggregated and possible EU counts for the GPU, let us see prototype MTL-M packages being assembled... That's a lot more color than we've gotten from the rumor mill thus far.
1) Raptor Lake might be a stop-gap chip that is Intel's top chip for just a short time--similar to Rocket Lake. If Meteor Lake does make it to desktop, then it will replace Raptor Lake only ~6 to 9 months after Raptor Lake is launched. Rumors go both ways as to whether Meteor Lake is a desktop chip or not. But if it is a desktop chip, then Raptor Lake will only be a blip in history.
2) Intel wants to show off its capabilities. There is nothing really special about Raptor Lake. A bit higher frequency, a bit more energy efficient, a bit better memory controller, a bit more cache, and another set of E cores. Nothing really Earth-shattering. Intel 7 is still a slightly behind the greatest from TSMC. But, Intel 4 is likely to be quite competitive to TSMC. Meteor Lake shows off Intel 4, Foveros, Intel's first EUV use, etc. If Intel is trying to drum up new business for their foundry, Meteor Lake leaks are by far the way to do it.