Intel's Meteor Lake 'Core Ultra' CPUs will finally launch December 14

pcgamer.com:

Intel is cutting it fine with Meteor Lake. But it looks like it will just—just—make its self-imposed schedule for pushing its new 4nm CPU out the door before the end of the year. The new Core Ultra, the CPU formerly known as Meteor Lake, will be launched on December 14th during an event Intel is calling «AI Everywhere» and that will also big up Intel's AI prowess «across the data center, the cloud and the edge». Huzzah!

We know quite a bit about Meteor Lake thanks to various briefings from Intel, including the fact it's essentially a mobile-only CPU and won't be coming to desktop PC sockets. But December 14th will be when the final details emerge including initial CPU models in what Intel might be calling its 14th Gen mobile CPU family, though maybe not. Who knows what Intel's marketing department is up to after switching to Core Ultra. 

Overall, the chip is a mix of revolutionary and more modest elements. The two big changes are at the higher structural level, with some of the finer architectural details less dramatic.

So, the first biggie is that Meteor Lake is a chiplet design with four what you might call feature dies, or tiles in Intel parlance, sitting atop a fifth slice of silicon that connects them all together. So, there's the compute tile with the CPU cores, a graphics tile, an SoC tile with the media engine, memory controller, AI cores and a few other bits and pieces, an IO tile with Thunderbolt, PCIe and the rest, and then that base tile underneath them all.

The other big news is that the compute tile will represent the first commercially available silicon built on the Intel 4 process, which would now be classed as a 4nm node, but was previously known as 7nm in Intel's roadmaps of old.

Oddly, the other three