Intel Meteor Lake “Core Ultra” CPUs Launched: The First Chiplet Design With Next-Gen CPU Cores, Arc GPU & NPU For The AI PC Revolution

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Today is a big day as Intel launches its next-generation Core Ultra CPU family codenamed Meteor Lake, bringing some major design changes.

Meteor Lake is a huge development from Intel as it incorporates technologies that its competitor has been using for several years in the client PC segment. The biggest of these technologies is a chiplet-based design which the blue team refers to as a "disaggregated" architecture and it comes with several benefits such as allowing the company to mix and match various core IPs on different nodes to meet the right performance and cost. We have an in-depth coverage of the Meteor Lake design and CPU architecture here so today, we will be focusing on what all of these technologies have to offer to the consumer.

Just a quick overview of the specifications, the Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs use a mix of IPs which include:

The Compute Tile features the Redwood Cove P-Core architecture and the Crestmont E-Core core architecture. There are also additional Crestmont Cores within the SOC tile which are optimized for low-power operations. The GPU tile is based on the Alchemist Xe-LPG architecture. All of these IPs are combined using its Foveros 3D packaging tech. All of this technology combined delivers what Intel is calling its most power-efficient client processor to date. Summing up all the major highlights of the Meteor Lake CPU:

Coming to the SKUs, the Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" lineup is split into two segments, the high-end Core Ultra 100H and the low-power Core Ultra 100U.

Intel Core Ultra 100H Series

The flagship SKU of the family is the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H which features 16 cores in a 6+8+2 (P-Core / E-Core / LP E-Core) configuration with 22 threads. The chip carries 24 MB of L3