Tuesday, April 28th 2020
Intel's First 7nm Client Microarchitecture is "Meteor Lake"
Intel's first client-segment processor microarchitecture built on its own 7 nm silicon fabrication process will be codenamed "Meteor Lake." The codename began surfacing in driver files and technical documents, one of which was screengrabbed and leaked to the web by Komachi Ensaka. Not much else is known about it, except that it succeeds the 10 nm++ "Alder Lake," an ambitious attempt by Intel to replicate Arm big.LITTLE heterogenous core technology on the x86 architecture, by combining a number of high-power cores with high-efficiency cores on a single piece of silicon. Intel "Lakefield," headed toward mass-production within this year, is the first such heterogenous core.
Older reports throughout 2019-20 speculate "Meteor Lake" (known at the time only by its name), could come out at a time when Intel monetizes its "Golden Cove" high-performance CPU core. It's quite likely that like "Alder Lake," it could be a heterogenous chip targeting several client form-factors, mobile and desktop. The company could leverage its 7 nm process - claimed to rival TSMC 5 nm-class in transistor density - in turning up core-counts over "Alder Lake." We'll learn more about "Meteor Lake" as we crawl toward its 2022 launch window, if it still holds up.
Source:
Komachi Ensaka (Twitter)
Older reports throughout 2019-20 speculate "Meteor Lake" (known at the time only by its name), could come out at a time when Intel monetizes its "Golden Cove" high-performance CPU core. It's quite likely that like "Alder Lake," it could be a heterogenous chip targeting several client form-factors, mobile and desktop. The company could leverage its 7 nm process - claimed to rival TSMC 5 nm-class in transistor density - in turning up core-counts over "Alder Lake." We'll learn more about "Meteor Lake" as we crawl toward its 2022 launch window, if it still holds up.
47 Comments on Intel's First 7nm Client Microarchitecture is "Meteor Lake"
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I got the point...
How anyone keeps up with the vast amounts of lakes ,comets, meteor and crystal based naming schemes, what that represents and when it will arrive is beyond me.
Can't we just start a Daily Fable for Intel as a sticky topic? All these announcements aren't really news... its just good comedy.
This puts Intel's 7nm and TSMC's N5 very close to one another in terms of density and due to physical characteristics, also in terms of voltage and power.
intel is a Great companies , it will be stronger
Crash lake. MeteorBurn lake. Lack lake or hot lake are catchy :)
Anyway, I'm looking forward for Intel's 7nm. There is no way, Intel will not try to improve products and look at AMD's eating it alive and I'm really looking forward for it these. Knowing that improvement must be done I'm sure Intel will figure something out.
Nuts lake. That one tells a lot :P
So in that sense yeah, Intel is a 'good' company. As in, it works to preserve itself. Not sure if that is a testament to quality anywhere, its certainly not a testament of honesty.
They have way too many different lines and slight deviations that may or just as likely not turn up to actually buy, that I don't now care what they say they will do.
I only care what they're selling now and have actually done.
They couldn't succefully hype me up about anything they do.
They could say they had a quantum processor that does 4x what any CPU and GPU combo can do and some, and I literally wouldn't care, shame they used to excite, now though :shadedshu:tut.