Intel Demos Meteor Lake’s VPU, Delivering Huge Boost To Generative AI Content & Stable Diffusion

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Intel Meteor Lake CPUs are right around the corner and the company gave us an early demo of the AI performance we can expect from its VPU.

The demo provided to us by Intel was brief but Intel did give us a taste of the performance with the Meteor Lake VPU enabled in two demos. Before going into those details, we should also state the Meteor Lake CPUs are on track for launch later this summer and more details are going to be revealed in the third quarter of 2023 (August-September). Intel also told us that they will reveal information regarding the new "Core" branding scheme in early June so that's also not that far.

So getting on with the details, Intel once again highlighted the disaggregated architecture for Meteor Lake CPUs that are utilizing several Lego-Like tiles as we had reported earlier. A key enabler for Meteor Lake CPUs is the use of Forveros 3D Packaging technology &  it marks the beginning of the ramp for Intel 4 for the client segment. The company calls it the first true "IDM 2.0" client CPU. Some of the main features of Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs include:

Intel also shed some light on the Arc Alchemist "Xe-LPG" graphics tile being used by the Meteor Lake CPUs and says that you will see the same technologies as the discrete Arc graphics cards such as DX12 Ultimate, Ray Tracing, and XeSS support in a perfectly balanced thermal envelope.

Moving over to the AI side of things, Intel highlights the advantages that each of its tiles would bring and these include:

The VPU will be featured across all Intel Meteor Lake SKUs. Talking to Intel, we were also able to confirm that while the VPU sits within the SoC tile, it is based on a different IP and doesn't uses the two additional Crestmont E-Cores featured on the SOC tile.