Intel Meteor Lake: Leap into the chiplet era with Core Ultra

with 14th December as the starting date Intel is leading the way for the new processor line New core branding One that leaves behind the classic “i” nomenclature. The new processors are officially called Core Ultra 5, 7 and 9. The Raptor Lake refresh, which is expected, will build the foundation with Core 3/5/7.

Tile architecture with separate chiplets

At the core of Meteor Lake’s technology, the 14th Intel CPU generation, uses a so-called “discrete” design. This means that the CPU is no longer made up of a monolithic chip, but rather smaller units called “tiles”. These components are combined into one CPU using Foveros stacking technology, a first for Intel to use both In addition to its own production, TSMC’s Uses. Based on Intel’s chiplets Intel 4 manufacturingWhen with TSMC N5 method TSMC currently manufactures mostly on a three-nanometer basis for Apple, which is probably why they decided on a five-nanometer process. Intel 4 is intended to enable about 20 percent more efficient chips than the current Intel 7 production.

In detail, the Meteor Lake CPU consists of four main components:

• CPU-Tile From Intel with P and E cores
• GPU-Tile Based on Arc technology from TSMC
• SoC-Tile From TSMC with e-core
• I/O-tile With PCIe 5.0, USB 4 and TB4 from TSMC

Efficiency benefits despite hardly any changes to the cores

The redesign not only provides efficiency benefits, but allows for a significant Improved graphics performance. Intel’s GPU in Meteor Lake will be based on Intel Arc technology and is expected to offer twice the speed of previous integrated graphics units. The media engine and display controller, as well as the memory controller, are located on the SoC tile. The GPU can often be in idle mode for media playback, which means Reduces energy consumption. The SoC tile contains additional efficiency cores to reduce the load on the CPU and thus further reduce power requirements.

There are hardly any changes to the actual core architecture. The performance cores were called Redwood Cove and replaced Raptor Cove, which in turn was a refresh of Golden Cove (Alder Lake, 12th generation). A They obviously do not propose any increase in IPC, but higher clock speeds are conceivable. The Crestmont Competency Cores are successors to the Gracemont Cores and offerings Four to six percent more power per cycle (IPC).

AI accelerator integrated

Another highlight is the integration of a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI tasks on the SoC tile, which makes the processing of AI tasks more efficient and supports standard APIs like Microsoft’s DirectML. This can be used for Windows Co-Pilot, for example. Integration between Adobe applications is also conceivable.

Will be meteor lake Mainly in notebooks Used. The market launch (and thus the unveiling of specific CPUs) will officially happen on December 14th, but the big announcements will only be made on December 14th. CES 2024 Expected in January. The first model will likely launch between February and April.

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