Intel is rumored to launch its Meteor Lake CPU lineup with Core Ultra 7 & 5 chips first followed by Core Ultra 9 laptops in 2024.
19.09.2023 - 16:33 / pcgamer.com / Pat Gelsinger / Meteor Lake
Intel has been a genuine player in gaming graphics cards for around a year now; more or less since the release of the Arc A770 and Arc A750 graphics cards. Whether Intel will stick around in the discrete graphics card game has come into question many times since, to the almost certain frustration of those working closely on the products. Culminating in Intel's Tom Petersen telling me «we're not going anywhere» in 2022—before even the launch of Intel's first big gaming graphics cards.
But you can see why the topic keeps coming up. Intel has been intensely cost-cutting in recent years, as CEO Pat Gelsinger streamlines or sells off parts of the business, and previous graphics ventures have been ditched pretty swiftly. Similarly, Intel's current lineup of budget graphics cards aren't yet a viable third option anywhere but the bottom end of the market.
Well, it's 2023—Intel's gearing up to launch its new mobile chips, Meteor Lake, which feature an Arc graphics tile, and I had a chance to catch up with Intel's graphics guru Tom Petersen again at the briefing event. So, let's check in: Is Intel still as committed to its gaming graphics as it was one year ago?
«Is Intel committed after billions and billions of dollars of investment, and over five years of development, and now bringing that to Meteor Lake? I mean, I think it's pretty self evident,» Petersen says.
He's smiling when he says that, and not actually sharpening a knife under the table to do me in for asking the same question twice in as many years. I made it out of the event alive, at the very least.
«I think the momentum is shifting where we're going from no success to okay, you can kind of see the drivers getting better and the adoption is improving. Games are getting better.»
It's true that Intel's graphics drivers have improved mightily in the past twelve months. And that Intel hit a speed bump in Starfield, a game optimised for AMD GPUs that quite literally knocked the eyebrows off Intel's cards.
«If you think about what we've done over the last nine months since launch, in Q1, we improve performance by about 40% on DX9, we just launched a new driver that improves the DX11 performance by about 20%. All of that learning moves all the way down the stack.
»But we are not done," Petersen continues. «There's a ton of stuff to do. I'm not going to call it any specific block of our driver, but there are several and they know who I'm pointing at. They can't see me, but I'm pointing at them. And there's stuff to be done.»
Curious to find out what Intel's learned since the release of the first generation Alchemist graphics cards, I asked Petersen how future GPU generations are shaping up with what they now know after Alchemist's launch. One interesting
Intel is rumored to launch its Meteor Lake CPU lineup with Core Ultra 7 & 5 chips first followed by Core Ultra 9 laptops in 2024.
In a new video, Intel has demoed the video playback capability of its Meteor Lake iGPU and its Low-Power E-Cores.
Intel has revealed that Meteor Lake P-Cores & E-Cores are architecturally very much alike to Raptor Lake but there are some improvements with the Intel 4 process node bringing in higher efficiency.
Intel is set to begin high-volume manufacturing of its Intel 4 node with bleeding edge extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) in Ireland from Friday the 29th of September. It will host a ceremony at its Fab 34 facility near Leixlip, Ireland at 12:45pm Irish Standard Time. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will be in attendance.
In a surprisingly unsurprising development, Intel has clarified its position on the upcoming Metoer Lake architecture. It's not coming to the desktop. The problem is that only last week Intel's Michelle Johnston Holthaus, executive vice president and general manager of the client computing group, said it was. Or at least, it seemed like she did.
Intel has made some clarifications to its recent statement regarding the desktop launch of its 1st Gen Core Ultra CPUs codenamed Meteor Lake.
The on/off saga of Meteor Lake for desktops has been settled once and for all. It's been confirmed. Meteor Lake will be coming to desktops.
Intel has confirmed that it will be bringing Meteor Lake CPUs to its desktop platform in 2024 amidst various cancellation rumors.
At Intel Innovation, a two-day event held in San Jose, Calif., the chip maker made official the unveiling of its anticipated "Meteor Lake," its next-generation architecture for client computer processors. We explained, in broad strokes, how Meteor Lake chips, which will debut Dec. 14 under the new Intel Core Ultra brand, are structured, and the general design decisions around the new chips. It's the biggest re-imagining of Intel's processors in decades. But our earlier stories are a mere distillation of many hours of briefings and deep dives, presented by Intel in the run-up to the launch, highlighting the design decisions and the underpinnings of the new silicon.
By Monica Chin, a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets. Monica was a writer for Tom's Guide and Business Insider before joining The Verge in 2020.
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