Friday, January 27th 2023
Intel Core "Meteor Lake" On Course for 2H-2023 Launch
Intel in its Q4-2022 Financial release call reiterated that its Core "Meteor Lake" processor remains on course for a 2H-2023 launch. The company slide does not mention the client form-factor the architecture targets, and there are still rumors of a "Raptor Lake Refresh" desktop processor lineup for 2H, which would mean that "Meteor Lake" will debut as a high-performance mobile processor architecture attempting to dominate the 7 W, 15 W, 28 W, and 35 W device market-segments, with its 6P+16E CPU that introduce IPC increases on both the P-cores and E-cores; and a powerful new iGPU. The slide also mentions that its succeeding "Lunar Lake" architecture is on course for 2024.
"Meteor Lake" is Intel's first chiplet-based MCM processor, in which the key components of the processor are built on various silicon fabrication nodes, based on their need for such a cutting-edge node; such that the cost-optimization upholds the economic aspect of Moore's Law. The compute tile, the die that has the CPU cores, features a 6P+16E setup, with six "Redwood Cove" P-cores, and sixteen "Crestmont" E-cores. At this point it's not known if "Crestmont" cores are arranged in clusters of 4 cores, each. The graphics tile features a powerful iGPU based on the newer Xe-LPG graphics architecture that meets full DirectX 12 Ultimate feature-set. The processor's I/O is expected to support even faster DDR5/LPDDR5 memory speeds, and feature PCIe Gen 5.
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"Meteor Lake" is Intel's first chiplet-based MCM processor, in which the key components of the processor are built on various silicon fabrication nodes, based on their need for such a cutting-edge node; such that the cost-optimization upholds the economic aspect of Moore's Law. The compute tile, the die that has the CPU cores, features a 6P+16E setup, with six "Redwood Cove" P-cores, and sixteen "Crestmont" E-cores. At this point it's not known if "Crestmont" cores are arranged in clusters of 4 cores, each. The graphics tile features a powerful iGPU based on the newer Xe-LPG graphics architecture that meets full DirectX 12 Ultimate feature-set. The processor's I/O is expected to support even faster DDR5/LPDDR5 memory speeds, and feature PCIe Gen 5.
10 Comments on Intel Core "Meteor Lake" On Course for 2H-2023 Launch
Nah, this is just trying to entice investors with powerpointry and an avalanche of internal code names.
So much for that. 2023 is going to be a very rough year for Intel and Zen 4 X3D, Genoa-X, Bergamo, Siena, Zen 4 Threadripper, Zen 4 APU's and MI300 have not even launched yet.
Intel already tapped out RPL against Zen 4. Even if the supposed RPL refresh arrives this year it will not overtake Zen 4 X3D in gaming.
Same in the Servers with SPR where it might make sense in some niche use cases but Genoa already destroys in in terms of TCO and performance in general workloads and this is before the onslaught of 1GB+ L3 cache infused Genoa-X, the 128c/256t Bergamo and cheap Siena for servers arrive this year.
Intel might have some RPL based workstation chip at 30-40 cores but AMD will quickly destroy that with 96 core Zen 4 TR.
Zen 4 APU's and A620 boards for lower cost machines will make life hard for 13100 etc and Intel's vaporware Ponte Vecchio has nothing against MI300.
It's much harder to flood an online shop though, but economies of scale do permit them to still have more in stock than competitors (both Intel and Nabisco).