Meteor Lake is a game changer in design, manufacturing, and architecture, according to Intel. To reflect the significant benefits Meteor Lake is expected to bring to both Intel and customers, the company is introducing a new naming scheme, moving away from the veteran “Core i” branding.
The first Intel Meteor Lake processors are expected to hit the market in the second half of 2023. As Intel has previously confirmed, at least the laptop processors will be far more efficient compared to the Raptor Lake, and will get a significantly faster integrated graphics chip and a dedicated AI accelerator.
This is made possible not least by the production from several tiles – the processor is manufactured using the modern Intel 4 process, the iGPU by TSMC. At Computex, we already discovered a first notebook based on Meteor Lake, which is equipped with a chip with six performance and eight efficiency cores. Intel has now officially confirmed that Meteor Lake will have a new naming scheme. The “i” is omitted, so Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 become Intel Core 3, Core 5 and Core 7.
This is followed by a number consisting of four to five digits and a letter that, as before, indicates the processor class, for example a “K” for processors that can be overclocked. What’s interesting is that Intel will offer both “Intel Core #” processors and “Intel Core Ultra #” CPUs. When asked, Intel did not want to confirm what the “Ultra” designation stands for.
It would be conceivable that “Ultra” denotes processors with a faster graphics chip or with additional features. The name “Intel Processor”, which was announced last year, will continue to be used for inexpensive chips that were previously marketed as Pentium and Celeron. More details on Meteor Lake’s technology are likely to be revealed over the next few months before the first notebooks based on the new chips are shipped in the fall.
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