Intel Meteor Lake reaches new milestone
The upcoming mobile architecture has entered a new stage of its development.
Intel is clearly eager to share news on its upcoming new architecture called Meteor Lake. Following a tape-in process announced in May last year, Intel has now confirmed that Meteor Lake has been powered-on.
Pat Gelsinger confirmed after Q1 earnings call that Meteor Lake has booted in three operating systems:
“Intel 4 Meteor Lake has now successfully booted Windows, Chrome, and Linux. The speed at which the team was able to achieve this milestone is a significant sign of the health of both Meteor Lake and our Intel 4 process technology.”
— Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO
The powered-on process does not guarantee imminent launch. The Ponte Vecchio, which was powered-on in January 2021 , has only just started the sampling process to customers. For Meteor Lake, the launch is scheduled for 2023.
This new series of processors will be the first consumer architecture featuring a tiled approach to the design of the chip. It will be built using Intel Foveros technology and based on Intel 4 process architecture for the compute tile.
Meteor Lake is to feature up to 192 graphics Execution Units, which is a double of the Alder Lake/Raptor Lake GPU core count. Intel has not confirmed how many CPU cores would Meteor Lake support, but it was confirmed to operate in the 5 to 125W power range. Therefore, Meteor Lake will debut on low-power laptops as well as high-end desktop consumer systems.
We have officially powered-on our first disaggregated product: Meteor Lake. An incredible milestone resulting from the efforts of so many across @intel . Congratulations, team! pic.twitter.com/eKvHzDqSiu
— Michelle Johnston Holthaus (@MJHolthaus) April 29, 2022
| Intel Mainstream CPU Roadmap (Rumored) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | Alder Lake | Raptor Lake | Meteor Lake |
| Launch Date | Q4 2021 | Q4 2022 | Q2 2023 |
| Fabrication Node | Intel 7 | Intel 7 | Intel 4 (compute), TSMC N3 (GPU), TSMC N4/N5 (SoC) |
| Big Core µArch | Golden Cove | Raptor Cove | Redwood Cove |
| Small Core µArch | Gracemont | Gracemont | Crestmont |
| Graphics µArch | Xe-LP Gen12.2 | Xe-LP Gen12.2 | Xe-LP Gen 12.7 |
| Max Core Count | 16 (8C+8c) | 24 (8C+16c) | TBC |
| Max GPU Cores | up to 96 EU | up to 96 EU | up to 192 EU |
| Socket | LGA1700 | LGA1700 | TBC |
| Memory Support | DDR4/DDR5-4800 | DDR4/DDR5-5600 | DDR5 |
| PCIe Gen | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 5.0 |
| Intel Core Series | 12th Gen Core | 13th Gen Core | 14th Gen Core |
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