Intel 14th Gen Core i9-14900K, i7-14700K and i5-14600K reportedly launches October seventeenth

Intel Raptor Lake Refresh has a launch date

The Intel 14th Gen Core desktop lineup is scheduled to be introduced in simply over every week. Nonetheless, in its typical method, Intel received’t launch the CPUs to the marketplace for one other month.

Our sources point out that Intel plans to launch the brand new sequence on October seventeenth, which is when the CPUs will turn into out there for buy, and evaluations are anticipated to go dwell. A day earlier, on October sixteenth, Intel has imposed an ‘advert’ embargo, suggesting that we might hear extra about potential preorders from retail companions.

Intel Raptor Lake Refresh Embargoes

• Advert Embargo: October 16, 2023, 6:00 AM PST
• Gross sales + Evaluations Embargo: October 17, 2023, 6:00 AM PST

It’s vital to notice that this launch date encompasses solely six fashions, particularly the Okay and KF-series, together with the Core i9-14900K (24-cores), Core i7-14700K (20-cores), and Core i5-14600K (16-cores), together with their respective KF variants missing built-in graphics help. All of those are unlocked 125W TDP fashions, with non-Okay sequence variants that includes TDPs of 65W and decrease anticipated to reach round CES 2024 subsequent 12 months.

Intel is gearing as much as announce the Raptor Lake Refresh sequence at Innovation 2023, now scheduled for September nineteenth. The corporate is anticipated to unveil a number of different merchandise, together with the cell Core 100 Extremely lineup, codenamed “Meteor Lake,” and presumably some cell rebrands from the Raptor Lake Refresh sequence. Moreover, there are expectations that Intel may present updates on Arc GPUs, particularly given the supply of the brand new ACM-G12 GPU, and the delayed launch of its Arc A580 GPU for nearly a 12 months.