Intel says Meteor Lake is still 'on schedule' for 2023 despite delay rumours
Intel has debunked the rumours of a Meteor Lake delay(opens in new tab), once more asserting a 2023 release for its grand new chiplet-esque CPU design. With a preview ahead of its Hot Chips(opens in new tab) presentation today, Intel has described some more detail of its upcoming Meteor Lake processor design, laying to rest the rumours that it might not launch until 2024.
Meteor Lake is the next next-gen chip from Intel, a whole new 3D chiplet design to follow the more traditional Raptor Lake release in the next couple months. Though one of the interesting things to note about Meteor Lake is that it's mostly being manufactured by TSMC, not Intel itself.
Meteor Lake processors will be made of four discrete chips (Intel calls them tiles), brought together with through silicon vias (TSVs) connecting them to a base die. These will be the main compute tile, the graphics tile, the SoC tile, and the I/O tile. Intel is using its 3D Foveros chip-stacking packaging tech to connect them through that base silicon slice.
There was an initial delay to the mass production of its Intel 4 (nominally 7nm) process from 2022 to the start of 2023—which is going to be the lithography used for the Meteor Lake compute tile—and then Trendforce reported that orders for the 3nm TSMC process it claimed to be using for the GPU tile had been cut from Intel's TSMC pre-order.
Intel's Boyd Phelps is reported by PC Watch(opens in new tab) (via Benchlife(opens in new tab)) as saying «Meteor Lake is on schedule» at a media roundtable ahead of Hot Chips, presumably in reference to these Trendforce rumours.
Back in February Intel had said it was using an external N3 process(opens in new tab) for Meteor Lake and subsequently Arrow Lake, it is now being
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