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Intel Core 14 processors in images, these are their news

Just a few hours and after announcing in style the Core 12 of the Alder Lake HX range for high-performance laptops, some photos arrive that show something that is almost two years away: the Core 14. Intel has a very advanced creation process Of these chips, they are something functional and not theoretical, but what we must understand is the paradigm shift that the company is going to take and that will position it at a new level. What’s new with these Core 14 processors?

It’s not that we know a lot about them, but we do have a rough idea of ​​their arrival dates and what they’ll bring. The main thing is that it is confirmed and the obvious is seen: Intel says goodbye to monolithic architecture and passes (as AMD did with Ryzen) to LCMbut … In a single package.

Intel Core 14, Tiled architecture for a single interposer

Everything is based on Foveros 3D, the latest cry from Intel to interconnect different silicon dies in one or more interposer. What Intel has shown is a very curious system, because the layout of the chip visually speaking could seem that it does not change, mainly because at the sight of an uninformed person it is still a single die.

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But none of that, what is revealed shows a minimal interposer that acts as a base in the purest Intel style and 4 tiled of different silicon joined and totally glued to each other. A design that seeks to concentrate the heat generated, reduce access times and simplify buses based on SVT. Therefore, Intel still thinks that unifying everything in the same interposer is the option to follow, while AMD uses a much more modular concept with individual chiplets.

What we see are the cores in the upper left, the GPU that could reach up to 192 EU, and logically the memory controller, PCIe and I/O parts of the processor. The second version follows the same scheme but in a much more compact format, surely designed for Ultrabooks.

Intel Process 4 and Meteor Lake Capabilities

If Alder Lake has been the biggest change in 10 years, Meteor Lake will be in the entire history of Intel, and it is not an exaggeration as such nor does it imply disproportionate performance. Meteor Lake as an architecture will take all the improvements and more of Alder Lake to a new level in chiplets coupled with an interposer with Intel’s first ever EUV lithographic process: its Intel 4.

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If this combination were not enough, we have to take into account that it will have acceleration through AI, a new type of integrated graphics called tGPU which is surely based on Battlemage as Xe microarchitecture and which promises the performance of a current low-end desktop GPU, such as RTX 3050.

There is no date as such for its launch, but what we are clear about is that Intel is far ahead of what it says, Meteor Lake is undoubtedly ready, it is only waiting for its mass launch ramp that could temporarily coincide with the end of the first phase of the new Fab in Ohio and the arrival of the ASML EUV scanners by 2023. Is Intel being forced to pick up the slack? Well, maybe yes, because technologically speaking it presents already mature realities and technologies used in other products.

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