Meteor Lake

Meteor Lake is Intel's codename for the first-generation of Intel Core Ultra mobile processors, to be released to the market on December 14, 2023.[2]

Meteor Lake
General information
Marketed byIntel
Designed byIntel
Common manufacturer(s)
Architecture and classification
Technology nodeIntel 4 process[1]
Products, models, variants
Product code name(s)
  • MTL
Brand name(s)
History
Predecessor(s)Raptor Lake
Successor(s)Arrow Lake

Description

According to Intel Technology Roadmaps and Milestones published on February 17, 2022, Meteor Lake will be built on the Intel 4 process. Meteor Lake will feature XPU (Intel's device abstraction for CPU, GPU, FPGA and other accelerators) enhancements with integrated AI and a tiled GPU architecture that, according to Intel, should deliver discrete graphics-level performance.[1] These statements were later confirmed on May 23, 2023 with additional details that emphasized Intel's collaboration with Microsoft on support of the new processor in Windows 11.[3]

Intel will use three different technological processes dies in the Meteor Lake series processors.[4] Chips on this microarchitecture are manufactured using the Intel 4 process. Part of the production is planned to be handled by TSMC. The Intel multi-chip module design uses Intel Foveros packaging technology.

On June 15, 2023, Intel announced that beginning with Meteor Lake it will use new branding for the Intel Core Processors:[5]

  • Letter i dropped from tiering (e.g. Intel Core 5 processor);
  • New processor numbering (the preferred method is to put the processor number after the word "processor", such as Intel Core 5 processor ##xx).

In this announcement, Intel mentioned that Meteor Lake will be exclusively mobile architecture for laptops, and processors on this architecture will be referred to as Core Ultra, while regular Core (desktops) will be on the Raptor Lake Refresh architecture.[6]

Features

A completely new disaggregated MCM architecture with four distinct tiles: compute (CPU), graphics, SoC and IO.[7]

CPU
  • Cores[8]
    • Up to 6 Redwood Cove performance cores (P-core)
    • Up to 8 Crestmont efficient cores (E-core)
    • 2 low power Crestmont E-cores part of the system-on-chip tile

GPU
  • Xe-LPG Graphics Architecture[9][10]
  • Up to 128 Execution Units[11]
  • 8K 10-bit AV1 hardware encoder[12]

I/O

See also

References
  1. "Intel Technology Roadmaps and Milestones". February 17, 2022.
  2. "Intel will launch Meteor Lake on December 14th — this is Intel's Core Ultra". 19 September 2023.
  3. "AI Coming to the PC at Scale". Intel.
  4. "Despite Rebrand, Intel's Core i and 14th Gen Names May Live on a Little Longer". PCMAG.
  5. "Intel Announces Major Brand Update Ahead of Upcoming Meteor Lake Launch". June 15, 2023.
  6. "MSI shows off the first ever Intel Meteor Lake laptop". June 16, 2023.
  7. "Meteor Lake Architecture Overview".
  8. W1zzard (2023-09-19). "Intel Meteor Lake Technical Deep Dive". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  9. Sripada, Radhakrishna (July 7, 2022). "[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/2] i915: Introduce Meteorlake". Free Desktop. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  10. "Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics Gaming API Guide". Intel. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  11. "Intel Unveils Meteor Lake Architecture: Intel 4 Heralds the Disaggregated Future of Mobile CPUs".
  12. "Intel Unveils Meteor Lake Architecture: Intel 4 Heralds the Disaggregated Future of Mobile CPUs".
  13. Nautiyal, Ankit (November 7, 2022). "[Intel-gfx] [RFC 00/15] Add support for HDMI2.1 FRL". Free Desktop. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
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