Meteor Lake, the future of Intel
According to Intel the chip has demonstrated performance in
line with its expectations for this preliminary phase of the CPU development
cycle.
"At Intel 4, we already managed to record the compute
tile for Meteor Lake and when it left the factory it was able to power up in 30
minutes with outstanding performance, just what we expected," said Pat
Gelsinger, Intel CEO, at the call. of the company's earnings this week.
The ignition is an important fact in the manufacture of this
type of products, since it can reveal if the first version in silicon is able
to ignite and work.
In fact, right now, no one is really expecting silicon to
echo groundbreaking performance or even to perform in a 100% stable manner.
The most normal thing is that it ends up revealing all its
flaws so that developers can adjust the design and develop what is missing in
the platform.
Over time, Intel will introduce additional iterations of the
Meteor Lake compute tiles for different purposes.
Although given the current costs of chip design in cutting
edge nodes, all companies prefer to keep the number of silicon iterations as
low as possible.
Intel's Meteor Lake CPU will presumably be the company's
14th generation Core processor and is expected to bring a number of innovations
to Intel's client PCs.
The Meteor Lake processor will be Intel's first client PC
CPU to adopt a multi-tile design with Foveros packaging technology : a compute
matrix with an unknown number of high-performance Ocean Cove cores and
energy-efficient Gracemont cores, an array GPU with 96 EU - 192 EU and a SoC
array containing drives such as a PCIe controller, a Thunderbolt controller and
a memory controller.
So far, Intel has only revealed that the Meteor Lake compute
die will be manufactured using its own I4 fabrication process (previously known
as 7nm), while the SoC die will be produced using a low power node.
Notably, Intel expects its Meteor Lake designs to scale from
5W to 125W, suggesting a wide range of applications these processors will be
able to address, including traditional ones like tablets, laptops, and
desktops.
The chip is expected to use LGA 1700 or LGA 1800 packaging,
but is not expected to be compatible with LGA 1700 motherboards for Intel 12th
generation Core ' Alder Lake ' processors .
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