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What is Meteor Lake?
Some reports have suggested Meteor Lake may reflect a reboot in generation numbers.
Intel shared its roadmap during an investor meeting in 2022.
That means Meteor Lake isn’t so much a reaction to Apple’s M-series but was planned independently.
What makes Meteor Lake so different from 12th and 13th Gen processors?
Meteor Lake features four Tiles, including:
Theres a lot to unpack here.
Intel shared its roadmap during an investor meeting in 2022.
First, separating core components (disaggregating) allows the SoC to turn off certain parts when not used.
For instance, Media IP, including support for playing back video, previously was on the integrated GPU.
Next is the introduction of new low-power island E-cores.
Intel desktop processor (Raptor Lake).
Those cores, while improved in Meteor Lake, have been moved to the new Compute Tile.
New and additional low-power island E-cores remain on the SoC Tile.
Intel includes a discrete neural processing unit (NPU) on the SoC Tile.
The new tile architecture in Meteor Lake.
This frees up all the P- and E-cores for everyday Windows tasks without degradation in performance.
Moreover, Intels NPU draws much less power, which adds to the increased efficiency of Meteor Lake.
Including an NPU in every Meteor Lake chip is significant as it lets AI hardware scale to new levels.
How did Intel make this chip?
This should mean the end of low-scoring benchmarks that previous-gen Intel Iris Xe GPUs often struggled with.
What does this mean for new laptops?
New AI and NPU found in Meteor Lake processors allows the tech to scale.
Why are Intel’s new laptop reference designs so important?
With Meteor Lake, Intel has created laptop reference designs for OEMs to license.
Those designs include a new Dual Channel Flow Hybrid Hyperbaric flow architecture with dual outlet higher performance quiet fans.
The evolution of Intel packaging technology.
The new design lets Meteor Lake laptops run exceptionally quietly.
What about specs, pricing, and release dates?
The future of Intel-based laptops wasn’t exactly dim, but now it seems brighter than ever.
Intel FOVEROS is the latest packaging tech that lets Intel make the Meteor Lake processor with higher yields than Raptor Lake.
Intel’s new Arc GPU for Meteor Lake delivers 2x the performance as previous generations.
A summary of what Meteor Lake brings to Windows laptops.
What Intel is doing to help OEMs make Meteor Lake laptops.
