The Intel Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' Chips will be available on December 14th, featuring Chiplet Design and AI Coprocessor

Intel introduced its 'Meteor Lake' CPUs on Tuesday, which will be available in desktops by the end of the year. The new Intel Core Ultra chips are built on Intel's 7nm "Intel 4" technology and are the company's first processors to have a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) for increased on-device AI capabilities. Intel's next processors, like those of competitors AMD and Qualcomm, will employ chiplets — or tiles for separate components on the same chip. Intel has also emphasized the chip's potential to run generative AI tools more effectively on a laptop.

Intel's next Meteor Lake processors, which will be available on December 14, will supersede the company's Raptor Lake CPUs, which were revealed last year. Meteor Lake, according to the chipmaker, represents the largest architectural advance in the company's processor architecture in four decades, and the top-of-the-line chip is known as the Intel Core Ultra — Intel appears to have shifted to a new title for its high-end PC chip.

According to Intel, the new Meteor Lake CPUs would consume less power and provide higher performance due to the utilization of chiplets. This shows that the Meteor Lake CPUs are intended for laptop users. The "Compute Tile" has performance and efficiency cores that, according to the business, enable much improved battery economy, as well as the company's first integrated NPU AI engine.

The CPU also contains specialized Media and Graphics tiles that are separate from the SoC. According to Intel, they can also be switched on and off individually. The "Graphics" tile on the CPU is a "Xe LPG" GPU with 8 Xe cores that supports ray tracing and XeSS – Intel's technology to 'upscale' content. 

Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, native HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1, PCIe Gen 5, and Thunderbolt 4 are among the connectivity choices on the "I/O Tile" Meteor Lake CPUs. Customers may have to wait a few more months before Intel releases the first processors that support the recently announced Thunderbolt 5 standard.

Intel has also praised the Meteor Lake 'Intel Core Ultra' processors' capacity to handle AI workloads utilizing the built-in NPU. The chips will be able to run generative AI tools similar to ChatGPT on their computer without transferring data to a cloud service. The dedicated NPU could also provide better performance when employing AI functions that are likely to be added to Windows in the future.

Pricing for Intel's Meteor Lake processors has yet to be announced, but we can expect to learn more about them closer to the December 14 launch date, including which OEMs will be the first to bring the new chips to consumers and whether they will be found in both laptops and desktop computers.

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