News Intel Ships Meteor Lake CPUs to PC Makers

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Intel produces Meteor Lake CPUs in the U.S. and Ireland.

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[Deleted member 2731765]

(so, one can think of this design as a five-tile architecture since the base die is also made in a clean room): a compute tile packing Ocean Cove high-performance CPU cores, energy-efficient Gracemont cores, an AI accelerator

Nope. The chip will utilize the brand-new Redwood Cove architecture for its P-Cores and the Crestmont CPU architecture for its E-Cores.

• Redwood Cove (P-Cores)
• Crestmont (E-Cores)

Not sure from where you got Ocean Cove and Gracemont as the core's codename. Gracemont was used in previous gen of chips.

MTL lineup also sports an additional E-core cluster located on the SoC tile, sporting the Low Power Island E-cores/LPE, which is based on the same "Crestmont" core architecture as the E-cores on the Compute tile although not being part of its ringbus or sharing its L3 cache. But this E-core cluster has its own L2 cache shared among four cores.

 

[thestryker]

It sounds like Crestmont should be an all around improvement, but Redwood Cove is mostly efficiency rather than performance. Will be interesting to see what these look like in the wild even if we're only getting laptop CPUs.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Wasn't there rumours that we would get the desktop meteor lake chips in 2024?

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Wasn't there rumours that we would get the desktop meteor lake chips in 2024?

Those were just "unverified" rumors. The plan has been scrapped now in favor of Arrow Lake-S desktop chips instead. No more desktop chips on the LGA 1700 platform.

They will release only for Notebooks and AIOs (BGA chips, i.e. soldered notebook solutions, incldung some NUCs).

As per Intel, Meteor Lake is purely a notebook product, and the "classic" desktop PC is not the goal of the company. Just mini PCs and all-in-one systems that typically use mobile chips rather than socketed processors (in the ball grid array (BGA) format).