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Intel Core "Meteor Lake" Confirmed NOT Coming to Desktops, Only AIOs and Mini PCs

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Assimilator said:
No.

What happened here is that when the journalist asked about "desktop processors" they meant the common definition of "desktop processors", i.e. socketable CPUs available to consumers that can be swapped in and out of motherboards available to consumers. And the Intel executive understood this perfectly well, as would pretty much anyone who was asked this question.

But she chose to respond as if she'd been asked about _any_ sort of possibility of MTL _ever_ coming to desktop _in any form_ e.g. NUCs, because answering the intended question honestly - i.e. "no" - would be a bad look. In other words, she chose to act like a lawyer or politician and be "economical with the truth", as they say.

Except, that's lying. Sure, she's got an excuse that she can use to claim that she wasn't, i.e. "I interpreted the question differently" - but everyone knows that she chose to interpret the question in the way that she did, just like people know when a lawyer or politician does the same thing.
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That's why you never ask a lawyer or a politician (or a PR-person, as a matter of fact) any question that you assume has an obvious meaning without specifying said obvious meaning.
 
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stimpy88 said:
Sorry, but a NUC is not a desktop. Just because it can sit on a desktop, does not make it so.

My laptop is sitting on my desktop right now and it's having an identity crisis caused by a copeium overdose....
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Identity crisis? Old notebooks with socketed CPUs are the ones that could complain, not these thin new ones.
 
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AusWolf said:
That's why you never ask a lawyer or a politician (or a PR-person, as a matter of fact) any question that you assume has an obvious meaning without specifying said obvious meaning.
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Sure, but blaming the journalist for not asking a narrowly-scoped question is blaming the wrong person. The answerer is at fault for being deliberately deceptive.
 
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Sure, but blaming the journalist for not asking a narrowly-scoped question is blaming the wrong person. The answerer is at fault for being deliberately deceptive.
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A fair point. Actually, when the meaning of a question is not specified, the person answering it can also do it if they want to. In this case, the PR person could have answered "MTL is coming for office pre-built, and other SFF desktop, but we will not have standalone parts for the DIY sector".
 
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AusWolf said:
True, but they cancelled the desktop chips, nonetheless, on contrary to Ice/Tiger Lake which were never meant to come to desktop in the first place (as far as I know). It means to me that the architecture isn't suited for desktop, be it for performance, scaling, or economic reasons.
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The word I heard is that Meteor Lake will be barely an improvement on Raptor Lake in perf, but will have twice the PPW.
No point in releasing on desktop to have the same perf, but for laptops, it's a given.
 
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