Intel introduces Meteor Lake – which was released for laptops this winter

That 14th generation Meteor Lake processors are on their way to laptops is no secret. Talk about Intel’s next generation has been going on for over a year, and now the company has revealed more about what we can expect in future laptops following the release of Meteor Lake on December 14. As we wrote earlier, Intel has abandoned the i designation on its new processors – it’s not about Core i7 processors – it’s about Core Ultra.

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According to Intel, they are not looking for pure performance increases over the current generation of Raptor Lake processors. Instead, much is about pure gains in power efficiency, in some cases cutting power consumption in half, thanks to the new E-cores. This is where CPU processes will be routed first, then moved to more performance-oriented cores if needed.

Meteor Lake also differs from previous generations in terms of design. Intel is betting on “tiles” or trays, like a patchwork of five different separate circuits. This allows more efficient and decentralized work with different components.

The integrated graphics also get a big upgrade. The Meteor Lake graphics chip should double the performance per watt compared to the Iris Xe graphics that debuted in the company’s 12th generation processors. The new architecture will be called Xe-LPG and will extract the best from Intel’s Xe-HPG architecture that powers the company’s Arc graphics cards. Ray tracing support is now integrated, as is HDMI 2.1 support.

One of the tiles in Intel’s new “tile” architecture is partly dedicated to artificial intelligence. It houses the so-called Neural Processing Unit (NPU), a dedicated circuit that has become a common sight in smartphones in recent years. Local management should enable faster computations and a higher level of integration, according to Intel, and as software from Microsoft (Windows) and Adobe, for example, become increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence, Intel wants to be on the train when it launches. From the platform.

Although Intel has now given a relatively modest presentation on how Meteor Lake will change and improve our laptops, much is still shrouded in mystery regarding configurations, performance, and so on. Expect more news and discoveries in the coming months. For diving into Meteor Lake, we recommend this article from our sister site PCWorld.