The Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” family of desktop processors from Intel will be updated in the second half of 2023. According to a VideoCardz report, Intel might not separate these chips into the 14th Gen Core series and instead keep them as part of the 13th Gen Core series. In order to address the 14 nm node commissioning delays, Intel released the “Haswell Refresh” and “Devil’s Canyon” CPUs as part of the 4th Gen Core series. By labelling “Coffee Lake Refresh” as part of the 9th Gen Core series rather than the 8th Gen Core, Intel tried something new. Intel increased the CPU core counts of its Core i7 SKUs and launched the new Core i9 brand extension for the mainstream desktop market, which is why this was done.

xx50 CPU model numbers could be upgraded for “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors if the 4th Gen Core “Haswell Refresh” is any indication. The Core i9-13950K, which replaces the i9-13900K (the i9-13900KS is a special edition/limited-release SKU), is an illustration of such a naming strategy. The only thing we are certain of at this point is that there will almost certainly be an increase in clock speeds across the board. It’s feasible that Intel will develop novel die-thinning, die-binning, and power-saving techniques that allow for these higher clock rates (which is what Intel did with 10th Gen “Comet Lake”). These processors might be manufactured in the current Socket LGA1700 packaging and work with motherboards equipped with Intel’s 600-series and 700-series chipsets after receiving a UEFI firmware upgrade.