Rumor: Chinese PC manufacturer confirms Intel 14th Gen Core release in October

Chinese PC manufacturer Machenike announced during the Bilibili World fair that a system with a next-generation Intel Core processor will be available in October. This seems to reconfirm that Intel will launch the Raptor Lake refresh in October.

Machenike has not yet announced exactly which CPU is used in the gaming PC, but… according to IT Home and VideoCardz In any case, it concerns a new Intel processor. It was previously suggested that Intel wanted to release the Raptor Lake refresh in October; first the K series would be released and later this year the non-K series.

The manufacturer is also said to have mentioned during the fair that the PC in question will have a PCIe 5.0 SSD. The 14th Gen Core series processor will be the first generation of Intel CPUs for which such SSDs will be available upon release. Previous generations also supported this bus standard via the GPU PCIe lanes, but native support for these SSDs is expected from Arrow Lake.

Intel is reportedly releasing the Raptor Lake refresh to replace the scrapped Meteor Lake desktop processors. These are CPUs with the same architecture and socket as the thirteenth generation of Intel processors, but in new configurations with, for example, more cores and threads or a higher clock frequency.