Intel stated Monday that the inspiration of its next-generation processor, the Intel 4 course of, is now “manufacturing-ready today.”
That course of might be used to fabricate Intel’s subsequent chip, code-named Meteor Lake.
Ann Kelleher, common supervisor of expertise growth at Intel, launched an up to date manufacturing roadmap along with the 2022 IEEE Electron Machine Assembly, printed in IEEE Spectrum. The roadmap itself seems related, albeit with some fine-tuning of the roadmap. The information, nevertheless, is that Intel is on the cusp of launching what’s going to in all probability be its 14th-gen Core chip, Meteor Lake.
Intel printed its manufacturing roadmap for the following a number of years starting this previous February. It started filling within the particulars in August and earlier, revealing the roadmap by 2024’s Lunar Lake. The important thing, nevertheless, is what Intel launched Monday, that Intel 4, and certain Meteor Lake, is now prepared for manufacturing.
As Boyd Phelps, company vp of Intel’s design engineering group, and common supervisor of consumer engineering, defined in August, solely the CPU tile of Meteor Lake might be constructed upon Intel’s Intel 4 expertise. The rest of the tiles might be sourced from TSMC, utilizing tiles manufactured on its N5 and N6 course of. The varied tiles might be constructed utilizing the UCIe interface, a seemingly summary idea that’s remarkably approachable: Like a PC, numerous tiles might be “plugged in” to the UCIe interconnect.
In all probability probably the most important enchancment, nevertheless, would be the addition of specialised AI elements. AI is a characteristic of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Arm chips, its legacy of smartphone AI enhancements together with portrait mode, with synthetic bokeh put in by AI.
In September on the Intel Innovation convention, Intel chief government Pat Gelsinger talked somewhat about what he believed Meteor Lake’s AI capabilities might accomplish. “One of the things we will be bringing is what I would say is core AI capabilities,” he stated then. “I’m sitting on a Zoom or Teams [call]. Do I want to have simultaneous translation or contextualization of that call? Yes. Do I want to have cameras that are following the speaker and performing image enhancements? Yes.”
In July, particulars of Meteor Lake leaked, although the leaks stated then that the chip was scheduled for the second half of 2023. (Intel’s Thirteenth-gen Core chips, Raptor Lake, launched in September 2022.) Igor’s Lab claims to have seen roadmaps that present the chips having six efficiency and eight effectivity cores, with a brand new low-power E-core, too. It’s unclear what these low-power E-Cores are, although Intel has indicated that Meteor Lake might be a brand new design. Will all of it occur quicker than anticipated?
