As part of today’s Q1 2023 earnings announcement from Intel, the company is providing a quick update on the state of its upcoming chips and manufacturing nodes. Key among these disclosures is a status update for Intel’s next-generation client processor (and first fragmented chiplet CPU), Meteor Lake, and the Intel 4 process node it’s built on.
According to Intel, the company plans to launch Meteor Lake in the second half of this year. More specifically, Meteor Lake is currently in production at the moment, running side-by-side with the new Intel 4 process.
“CCG’s Meteor Lake product on Intel 4 is ramping up production wafer starts for a planned launch in the second half of 2023.”
The basis for what we expect will be marketed as Intel’s 14th Meteor Lake, the generation of Core processors, is a big part for Intel and represents the first of several for the company. This will not only be the first client CPU to use chiplets, but also the company’s first heterogeneous chiplet CPU to use different chiplets for I/O, CPU cores, graphics, etc. On the manufacturing side, it will not only be the lead product for Intel’s next-generation EUV-based Intel 4-process node, but it will also make the largest use of Foveros 3D die stacking technology to date. A relatively inexpensive mass-market processor.
The last significant update for Intel’s Meteor Lake came almost exactly a year ago. The company announced in its Q1 2022 earnings call that it was successfully powered up for testing. So, a year later, Intel is now finalizing preparations to launch the product later this year. The official launch date is still in the second half of the year – the ramp-up of the Intel client processors will take months even without introducing a whole new manufacturing technology – so Intel has provided more specific details about its launch he said. It will be announced in the second half of 2018. quarter.
