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Intel today showcased the tech behind the next-generation mobile chips dubbed Meteor Lake – the first series of Intel Core processors to be fabbed using cutting-edge Intel 4 nodes.
Achieved using Foveros 3D packaging, Meteor Lake is one of the densest consumer-grade processors that Intel has ever produced for both thin, light, and performance-oriented notebooks. Commercially, it is likely to be called the 14th Gen Intel Core processor.
The new compute tile of the Meteor Lake consists of a new hybrid CPU architecture with P (performance) and E (efficiency) cores, offering up to 14 cores or 20 threads. According to Intel, the next-generation optimised OS scheduler and Thread director will deliver the best adaptive performance by assigning the right task to the right core with an emphasis on power budget to deliver best-in-class performance and enhance battery life.
The Meteor Lake processor also includes a new SoC (system-on-chip) tile with an integrated NPU AI engine that enables on-device AI computation and this tile also includes a one-of-a-kind low-power e-core to help boost battery life. There is also an I/O tile with support for technologies like PCIe Gen5 and Thunderbolt 4. Besides, the upcoming mobile processors from Intel also support 8K HDR, AV1 codecs, HDMI 2.1, and Display Port 2.1 standards.
The dedicated neural engine on the Meteor Lake chips will be used for a variety of computing tasks, including on-device generative AI processing, computer vision, and image enhancement. It is said to be 8x more power efficient than GPU-based computation and the company has collaborated with Microsoft to make use of this new hardware across various products and services on Windows OS.
Intel has also integrated its ARC graphics for the first time on a mobile processor and the company claims that it offers 2x performance/watt when compared to Iris Xe graphics on the 12th Gen Intel Core processors. Various chips on the processor are connected by ring fabric, which enables high-speed data transfer between CPU, GPU, and SoC tile.
Intel 4, the cutting-edge chip fabrication process makes use of the EUV process and is 20 per cent more power efficient than Intel 7 with 2x area scaling and the company also claims that it is the most efficient processor that the company has ever built. These chips will hit the market by the end of this year, and we can expect to see laptops and notebooks powered by Meteor Lake processors by early 2024.
