Monday, April 10th 2023
Intel 14th Gen Core Lineup Confirmed to be Meteor Lake CPU Range
The Meteor Lake codename has been linked to the fourteenth generation of Intel's Core lineup for a while, following several significant leaks in 2022 and 2023. According to newly unearthed internal documentation and benchmark data, Intel has confirmed that the Meteor Lake family of CPUs will form its upcoming 14th Gen Core lineup - with laptop variations expected to arrive mid-2023 and heavily speculated desktop units in the fourth quarter, although a middle of the year refresh of Raptor Lake could push the entire Meteor Lake range's release window into 2024.
Meteor Lake is anticipated to be Intel's debuting of a "disaggregated" design - the most advanced laptop CPU variant features a top-of-the-line 6P+8E core configuration. Intel is solely responsible for fabrication of an IOE (I/O) tile (the company's own term for a chiplet) with PCIe 5.0 plus Thunderbolt 4, as well as an SoC tile. The GPU part of the design is rumored to be based on their own Arc Alchemist architecture, and TSMC has been contracted to manufacture this graphics tile - not a big surprise since Intel has also placed substantial manufacturing orders for discrete Arc cards with the Taiwanese foundry.
An internal document (published by Intel) was leaked on Twitter over the past weekend, and it lists hardware support for Intel Media SDK and oneVPL (Video Processing Library) GPU runtimes. On this chart the "Future: 14th Generation Intel Core" series is indicated as being part of the "MTL/Meteor Lake" category. "RPL/Raptor Lake" stays in the 13th Generation Intel Core lineup according to this information - industry insiders have speculated that a refresh of Raptor Lake would result in a jump into Intel's 14th generation.
Sources:
momomo_us Tweet, Dell Inspiron 13 5330 Performance Results
Meteor Lake is anticipated to be Intel's debuting of a "disaggregated" design - the most advanced laptop CPU variant features a top-of-the-line 6P+8E core configuration. Intel is solely responsible for fabrication of an IOE (I/O) tile (the company's own term for a chiplet) with PCIe 5.0 plus Thunderbolt 4, as well as an SoC tile. The GPU part of the design is rumored to be based on their own Arc Alchemist architecture, and TSMC has been contracted to manufacture this graphics tile - not a big surprise since Intel has also placed substantial manufacturing orders for discrete Arc cards with the Taiwanese foundry.
35 Comments on Intel 14th Gen Core Lineup Confirmed to be Meteor Lake CPU Range
(HSW-E = 5-th gen, BD-E = 6-th gen and SKL-X = 7/8/9/10-th gen)
If i understand this correctly, its confirmed that 14th Gen intel processors will be Meteor Lake, 5nm/6nm process
11th gen intel was 14nm
12th gen intel was 10nm
This next generation finna be Fast AF Boii
Hmm, I didn't think it would happen this fast... I might wait it out before I buy my new work laptop, wouldn't mind having a 14th gen work laptop, I want it to last me like ten years since its just for work.
Hell, I have an Intel-branded LGA1156 server board here for the Lynnfield platform (3420 chipset, based on P55) and its last BIOS update was in 2018, practically 10 years later, that's with all the turmoil and Intel's withdrawal from the motherboard market. Has any consumer motherboard, Intel or AMD-based, had their BIOS maintained for more than nine years?Haswell-E is 4th gen and Broadwell-E is 5th gen (despite the -5000 and -6000 nomenclature for these chips), and neither design has integrated graphics, which the media SDK seems to entirely rely upon. That's why only the mainstream desktop Core and Xeon E3 segments are serviced, they do have an iGPU.
It will work on B660?
:rockout:
The purpose of this leak is basically just to confirm that even if their is a raptor lake refresh (which is the current heavy rumor) it won't carry the 14th gen name.
I wonder when we're gonna move the SoC parts outside the CPU package and call it a north bridge again.
The latest bus standards have so much wiring that if the North Bridge were separated now, the PCB would not fit into the laptop chassis.The iGPUs up to the 13th gen are DG1 (Xe-LP) and Meteor lake is DG2 (Xe-LPG) based. mTL GT2 is basically Arc A370M with the tensor core (XMX) removed, and according to Techpowerup's GPU database, is twice as powerful as the 13 th gen iGPUs.
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU Mobile
Pixel Rate: 33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate: 67.20 GTexel/s
Intel Arc A370M
Pixel Rate: 65.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate: 131.2 GTexel/sSoC tiles include many PHYs such as media unslice. It will not be possible to make it too small there because of the need to physically output large voltages and currents.
Of course, if our bodies shrink to match the CPU tiles, the SoC tiles will also be smaller because the cable lengths will be shorter and can be driven by smaller currents and voltages.