Intel Details Its Next-Gen Razor Lake Desktop and Laptop CPUs - eTeknix

The information, initially spotted by researcher InstLatX64 and shared through the Bluesky platform, adds four new model values under family 18H, the same one assigned to Nova Lake. According to the data in the November document, variants 12_06H and 12_0AH correspond to desktop PCs, while identifiers 12_07H and 12_09H are specifically intended for laptops.

Technical Capabilities

Regarding Razor Lake's technical capabilities, the architecture introduces a new speculative behavior control, allowing different handling between user mode and supervisor mode in certain memory operations. It also adds APIC timer virtualization for virtual machines, a feature shared with the Coral Rapids server family.

The new processor family also includes instructions designed for the ML-DSA (Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm) standard. Recent patches published for GCC suggest that Razor Lake will maintain a similar set of features to Nova Lake, which would indicate the presence of technologies such as AVX10.2 and APX.

Market Timeline

Despite these advances in software support, with tools such as CPU-Z already adding compatibility, the arrival of Razor Lake-S with the LGA-1954 socket is not expected until 2028, meaning there is still quite some time before these processors reach the market.

Intel also warns that the features included in the architecture document are not guaranteed to make it into final commercial products, so we should take this information with a grain of salt.