Eight things we learned from Intel’s Innovation keynote
By Monica Chin, a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets. Monica was a writer for Tom's Guide and Business Insider before joining The Verge in 2020.
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Intel has wrapped up its annual Innovation event in San Jose, where the chipmaker gave us a glimpse of what’s coming down the pipeline over the next few years. In case you don’t have a spare hour and a half to sit down and watch CEO Pat Gelsinger’skeynote, here are some important things we learned.
The company officially introduced its “Meteor Lake” generation (known officially as the Intel Core Ultra) to the world at the Innovation keynote. These will succeed the 13th-Gen “Raptor Lake” line; they will be the first chips built on the new Intel 4 process and its first with a dedicated AI coprocessor inside.
They’re also Intel’s first consumer CPUs to graft together different chiplets for each component (which is something that competitors like AMD and Qualcomm have been doing for a while). In this case, there will be four tiles: compute, graphics, SoC, and I/O.
The SoC tile is essentially a low-power processor in itself. In addition to features like wireless connectivity, native HDMI 2.1 and DP 2.1 standards, and an integrated memory controller, the tile includes separate “low power island” E-cores that are specifically intended for lighter workloads. The idea is that this setup could offload lighter processes from the power-sucking compute tile. This, in theory, would allow the chips to save power, which is why Intel’s calling Meteor Lake the most efficient client processor it’s ever made.
On the gaming front, Meteor Lake can incorporate Intel’s Arc graphics
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