The fourteenth generation of Intel Core “Meteor Lake” processors, which should arrive in the second half of this year, will bring several important innovations. The biggest one is the fact that Intel will deploy a chiplet design similar to AMD for the first time in a consumer product. But they will throw in new names as well.
But in good order. At Meteor Lak, the company will try out the new Intel 4 production process (previously designated as 7nm) in practice for the first time. However, it will only be used for processor cores, i.e. the large Redwood Cove and the small Crestmont. Intel will have the other tiles manufactured by competitor TSMC.
The GPU tile will use the N5 process. The IO tile for external connections and the SoC that logically connects all these circuits will then use the less advanced TSMC N6 lithography. Intel tried the tile design last year at the Ponte Vecchio computing accelerators, but ordinary mortals will never encounter them.
Meteor Lake is rumored to still be plagued by development issues. Not to mention, it was originally supposed to come after Alder Lake, but the company introduced a slightly improved Raptor Lake after it. Meteor Lake is said to be primarily aimed at laptops, the company is said to be unable to produce processor tiles of sufficient quality for desktops. It is not possible to keep high clocks and so much waste is created that Intel preferred to reduce the number of cores. Meteor Lake will apparently only be available in the lower Core i3 and i5 ranges.
And they might not even be called that anymore. Chips labeled Core Ultra (e.g. Core Ultra 5 1003H) began to appear in the benchmarks. And the name change was confirmed yesterday by the company’s spokesperson, Bernard Fernandes, saying that Intel will provide more detailed information in the coming weeks.
Intel introduced the Core i3, i5 and i7 brands in November 20008 along with the Nehalem architecture. Since then, they stick to an understandable nomenclature, where the dot indicates the class and the string after the hyphen (for example, i9-13900K) refers to the generation of the processor and the specific model. The higher the number, the better the processor.
The company violated this a few times in the past, chips of one generation could bear a different designation. The even more powerful Core i9 arrived, on the other hand, the lowest Core i3 range has already been degraded so that it can only contain small atomic cores, with which it has already spoiled the Pentium and Celeron brands. But there was still a certain logic in the nomenclature. It is therefore surprising that an established brand that has worked so well for 15 years now intends to change it.
2023-05-02 08:45:04
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