Meteor Lake is the codename for Intel’s first “disaggregated” processors comprised of discrete tiles quite than as monolithic items of silicon. They’re anticipated to be pretty low-power and comparatively modest when it comes to specs, a minimum of in comparison with the present power-thirsty Raptor Lake CPUs.
It’s not a leak, precisely, however the newest affirmation that Intel’s first tiled client CPUs will hit the desktop comes within the type of a patch submitted to the Linux spi-intel-pci driver by one Mika Westerberg, who seems to be an Intel worker. In the commit request, Mika writes that “Intel Meteor Lake-S has the identical SPI serial flash controller as Meteor Lake-P.”
The mere point out of Meteor Lake-S by Westerberg virtually assuredly means that such a SKU exists. For these unfamiliar with Intel’s segmentation suffixes, -S sometimes refers to standard-power desktop processors (as contrasted with -Ok for high-power and -T or -U for low energy CPUs.) Meanwhile, -P sometimes refers to “mid energy” cellular processors, just like the Core i7-1360P, which usually reside within the 28-35W vary.
Assuming that the Raptor Lake refresh involves move, it is going to be fascinating to see precisely how these components evaluate in opposition to the newer and certain more-efficient Meteor Lake silicon. By all accounts, Meteor Lake tops out with solely six P-cores, backed up by 16 E-cores plus an additional two so-called “LP-E-cores” on the SoC tile. It additionally most likely will not clock as excessive because the RPL refresh; rumors have these components going as excessive as 6.2 GHz.
