Already confirmed as the 14th generation of Intel’s processors, the Meteor Lake family may actually win desktop models, instead of being limited to notebooks as recent rumors speculated. A new test device made available by the giant and alleged leaked official documents show that desktop PCs should win models from the Meteor Lake-S family with 65 W consumption, although this series should be limited to more basic CPUs.
The Intel Meteor Lake (MTL) family promises to be a milestone for the company as it is the first aimed at common users based on chiplets, called tiles by the company. In addition to a CPU with a completely redesigned hybrid architecture, the components of this line will feature dedicated tiles for connections and an integrated GPU, which could guarantee a great leap in performance in graphics processing.
Although promising, rumors indicated that problems led Intel to limit the availability of Meteor Lake chips to notebooks, then targeting the Raptor Lake Refresh (RPL-R) family to desktops — a situation contradicted by new leaks, at least in parts. On its official website for selling CPU testers to partners (such as notebook manufacturers), Intel has listed the LGA1851 interposer (the silicon chip on the CPU that makes contact with the motherboard socket) for the Meteor line. Lake-S.
Two important pieces of information are practically confirmed: the LGA1851 socket, leaked almost a year ago as the socket that should equip 800 series motherboards for the 14th generation, and the existence of a Meteor Lake-S series — the S at the end indicates that the processors that compose it are intended for desktop PCs. Unfortunately, additional information requires a business account to access.
This did not stop the leaker Bionic_squash (@SquashBionic) to have access to what appears to be an official slide from the Santa Clara giant for partners, consisting of a table comparing the 13th generation Raptor Lake-S to the 14th generation Meteor Lake-S and even the 15th generation Arrow Lake -S. Along with the confirmation of desktop variants, the most interesting point is that the 14th generation would be limited to simpler chips up to Core i5.
This possibility is not new — the leaker Tomdo canal Moore’s Law is Dead, had suggested that, due to some difficulties it encountered in the development of the Meteor Lake family, Intel would have considered limiting it to laptops, with the best hypothesis being the launch of basic desktop CPUs, possibly in the form of a Core i5. That’s where the Raptor Lake Refresh chips come in, which would be positioned as the 14th generation Core i7 and Core i9, showing slight improvements compared to the 13th generation models.
The mixture of different families is also not surprising when we consider cases like 10th generation Ice Lake and Comet Lake, 11th generation Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake and even the Raptor Lake family itself, in which some chips (such as the Core i5 13400 and the Core i3 13100) use circuitry from the previous generation. Against this backdrop, Tom may also be right about the Meteor Lake processor configurations that should come to desktop PCs.
According to him, the most robust configuration should have 22 cores and 28 threads, 6 high-performance P-Cores with the new Redwood Cove architecture and 16 high-efficiency E-Cores with the new Crestmont architecture. More complete performance details are still unknown, but the adoption of Intel Lithography 4, equivalent to 7nm, could guarantee significant efficiency gains of up to 50%.
The 14th generation is expected to be presented in the second half of 2023, with availability being expanded between the end of this year and the beginning of 2024. Until then, new leaks or even official announcements that better clarify what we can expect from these processors should begin to be disclosed.
Source: Intelvia VideoCardz
