Intel announced the latest Meteor Lake series of Core Ultra mobile processors at the innovation event on September 20th. The series of processors has been confirmed for December 14 and the fifth generation of Xeon released on the same day.
For the past three years, Intel has launched its new mobile processors at the beginning of the year, missing out on the peak PC market season that runs from December to February each year, but that’s set to improve this year.
ZDNet Korea says several PC makers have completed motherboards and other hardware designs for laptops powered by Meteor Lake processors, and have entered the software and driver debugging phase in preparation for the peak demand season.
Intel announced its latest Meteor Lake processor at an innovation event on September 20 and detailed a series of new features of Meteor Lake, such as an integrated NPU, an AI power management system, a 15% improvement in endurance, and it features a split module architecture and the first use of the Intel 4 process.
In June, Intel announced a major upgrade to its Core brand, splitting it into a new Intel Core Ultra for flagships and an Intel Core processor brand for mainstream products.
Intel said that the upcoming Meteor Lake processor is a revolutionary generation of products, and from this product, the brand will start a new naming system.
The naming is as follows:
Thanks to advanced Foveros 3D packaging technology, Meteor Lake utilizes a split-module architecture that divides the entire processor into functional partitions of compute, IO, SoC, and graphics modules, delivering a revolutionary architectural shift in the 40-year history of Intel’s client-side SoCs.
The processor features a 3D high-performance hybrid architecture comprised of performance cores (Redwood Cove) and energy-efficiency cores (Crestmont), as well as low-power energy-efficiency cores, which Intel says achieves the best power consumption ratio in PC processor history, and for the first time ever, a neural network processing unit (NPU) is integrated into a PC processor, accelerating the proliferation of artificial intelligence.
