Intel's first chiplet CPUs promise 20% higher frequencies at the same power level as Alder Lake
Intel has outlined some impressive goals for its next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs to get any PC gamer salivating. These include delivering greater than 20% faster clock speeds for the same power as Alder Lake uses today, and the use of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography for a much improved Intel 4 process node.
The Meteor Lake processor generation hasn't got an official release date yet, but it's expected to arrive later in 2023 if all goes to plan. This will be the first of Intel's consumer CPUs to actually use a chiplet design, connecting compute, GPU, and SoC dies via its Foveros packaging process. It's not the next chip generation expected from Intel—that's Raptor Lake, a refresh of the existing Alder Lake processors—but it is the next one after that.
That hasn't stopped some of the juicy details from coming out about this future chip generation, however, as Intel has elaborated more on this upcoming chip release at the 2022 IEEE VLSI Symposium.
Most of the following information was included in slides taken from the show by Twitter account @phobiaphilia(opens in new tab) and later reported by ComputerBase(opens in new tab), but the cited tweets have since been deleted.
Still, it appears as though Intel is pressing on as planned with Meteor Lake. Meteor Lake will be the first consumer CPU built using the Intel 4 process node, and with that new process comes a target of more than 20% higher frequencies for the same power as the process node used by existing 12th Gen chips, Intel 7.
In theory, that should see quite a step up in performance without the necessity to increase processor power requirements even further. Yet I would still expect the next few processor generations will increase power demands. Intel will be
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