Intel is on observe to launch its codenamed Meteor Lake-S processors for desktops within the coming quarters, however there is a catch. The corporate will solely deal with entry-level and mainstream techniques with these CPUs, whereas performance-demanding PCs must use Raptor Lake Refresh or Arrow Lake-S processors.
It seems as if Intel’s Meteor Lake-S processors will solely exist in Core i3 and Core i5 fashions rated for 35W and 65W, which is nice sufficient for compact and customary entry-level and mid-range desktops. This info is predicated on an excerpt from a slide from an alleged Intel presentation printed by @SquashBionic, a famend {hardware} leaker with frequent entry to confidential info.
Meteor Lake-S will share Intel’s Socket V1 (for LGA1851 CPUs) and Intel’s 800-series chipset platform with Intel’s Arrow Lake-S processors. In the meantime, motherboards aimed toward Arrow Lake-S, which is able to exist in Core i7 and Core i9 variants for players and fanatics, will characteristic significantly extra superior voltage regulating modules to supply most efficiency. You’ll be able to count on it will likely be priced accordingly.
Intel’s Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake processors are set to be the corporate’s preliminary processors for consumer purposes that depend on disaggregated multi-tile designs. The compute tile for Meteor Lake shall be produced on the Intel 4 node that extensively makes use of excessive ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, whereas Arrow Lake’s compute tile shall be made utilizing the corporate’s 2nm-class fabrication course of known as Intel 20A. Each CPUs will even characteristic a graphics tile produced by TSMC on its N3E manufacturing expertise.
Intel’s 20A node is exclusive as it is going to incorporate the corporate’s RibbonFET gate-all-around transistors with PowerVia bottom energy supply. The RibbonFET and PowerVia applied sciences promise to supply important advantages for high-performance consumer and datacenter CPUs, which explains why Intel needs to make use of 20A sooner slightly than later, given the extraordinary competitors in opposition to AMD. In the meantime, it is unclear why Intel doesn’t need to introduce an Intel 4-based half for higher-end desktops.
Whereas it’s considerably shocking that Intel doesn’t need to deal with efficiency demanding PCs with its first consumer processors that includes a multi-tile design, this is not significantly uncommon. Intel by no means supplied its fifth Era Core ‘Broadwell-C’ processors for the mass desktop market. In actual fact, the corporate solely launched two of such CPUs in socketed LGA1150 form-factor — Core i5-5675C and Core i7-5775C. These have been rapidly outdated by the Skylake Core i7-6700K launch only a few months later.
As at all times with leaks of this nature, keep in mind that the data comes from an unofficial supply and never instantly from Intel. Plans are additionally topic to vary, so what Intel intends to do now might not be the identical what the corporate really does in 2024, when Meteor Lake-S for desktops are set to enter the scene.