METEOR LAKE
LATEST ON THE NEW PROCESSOR
INTEL’S 14TH GENERATION CHIPS are due this fall, but the company is being recalcitrant over Meteor Lake. Like the 11th generation Tiger Lake, it’s to be focused on the mobile market. It will also be the first to use new branding, as Core Ultra. The first sign of this has appeared on an engineering sample in a database listed as a Core Ultra 7 1003H—Intel is dropping the ‘i’, and adding ‘Ultra’. What the other number means is another matter. We know that all Meteor Lake chips are to get dedicated AI hardware in the form of a Movidius VPU, a Vision Processing Unit that previously appeared on a few 13th generation chips. Are we getting Meteor Lake desktop chips? The latest rumor is that no, we won’t. A leaked slide from a road-map shows that the main suspect as a desktop version, a 6P+8E core variant, has been dropped.