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Those statements came during aninterview with PCWorld’s Mark Hachmanthat Tom’s Hardware reported on.

While Hachman confirmed that Meteor Lake processors will be available on desktops, little is known about the chips.

Intel Meteor Lake from Intel Technology Tour 2023 in Malaysia

Tom’s Hardware speculated that the Meteor Lake-S CPUs will have up to six high-performance cores.

The video above should jump right to the 6:25 mark when Holthaus discusses Meteor Lake desktop CPUs.

However, that entire segment is 30 seconds, so we’ll have to wait for more details.

Nvidia Grace

That’s because Intel Meteor Lake processors are expected to compete with Apple’s regarding efficiency.

That means both the performance and efficiency cores of a Meteor Lake CPU can focus on other tasks.

NPUs also use less power, which helps with efficiency.

The MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo (B2HMG) with Intel Core Ultra 9 285H inside.

We’ll have to wait for details to confirm similar movement on the desktop.

Intel Arc Battlemage

MSI Claw 8 AI+ on a stand and running a Sonic game.

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X processor in motherboard socket

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition power adapter in box

Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 Ryzen

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addresses participants at the keynote of CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition (front) compared to RTX 5090 Founders Edition (rear)

Lenovo IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 deal

Promotional screenshot of characters from Zenless Zone Zero

A closeup shot of the MSI Claw 8 AI+�s ABXY buttons.

The Crew

Promotional screenshot of a superpowered football kick in Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road