Intel clarifies the rumor that "Meteor Lake will push the desktop": for all-in-one computers, etc., or mobile processors

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, September 27, last weekend, a piece of news that Meteor Lake processors will land on the desktop side attracted a lot of attention, but according to ComputerBase asked Intel many times, found that Intel executives said misleading.

According to Intel's official response, the Meteor Lake is mainly a laptop product. Meteor Lake is an energy efficient architecture that will support mobile and desktop design, including desktop form factors such as all-in-one machines (AIO).

In other words, Intel executives just said they would come to the desktop computer, not whether it is a desktop version of the processor, CTOnews.com partners can lower their expectations.

ComputerBase said that according to previous revelations, Intel did have samples and early plans for Meteor Lake-S, with a core of up to 6P+16E and 125W, but cancelled the product line last year.

Intel unveiled the latest Meteor Lake processor at its innovation event on September 20 and detailed a series of new features of Meteor Lake, such as integrated NPU, an AI power management system, a 15% increase in battery life, and its split module architecture, using Intel 4 technology for the first time.

In June, Intel announced a major upgrade to the Core brand, dividing it into the new Intel Core Ultra for the flagship and the Intel Core processor brand for mainstream products. Intel said that the upcoming Meteor Lake processor is a revolutionary generation of products, from which the brand will use a whole new way of naming.

Intel said that thanks to advanced Foveros 3D packaging technology, Meteor Lake adopted a separate module architecture, dividing the entire processor into functional partitions of computing modules, IO modules, SoC modules and graphics modules, bringing about revolutionary architectural changes in Intel client SoC over the past 40 years.

The processor uses a 3D high-performance hybrid architecture consisting of performance cores (Redwood Cove) and energy efficiency cores (Crestmont) and low power efficiency cores. Intel says it has achieved an excellent energy consumption ratio in the history of PC processors and integrated neural network processing units (NPU) into PC processors for the first time, accelerating the popularity of artificial intelligence.