In recent months, Intel has been building momentum for its superchip, Meteor Lake, with a series of labels, such as the first CPU with a different chip for each component and the first built-in dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) co-processor. At the "Innovation 2023" conference on Tuesday, September 19th, Eastern Time, Intel officially announced that the MeteorLake processor will be available on December 14th this year. In other words, we will be able to see personal computers (PCs) equipped with MeteorLake by the end of this year.

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Intel said the Meteor Lake chip will be able to run generative AI chatbots on laptops without having to use cloud data centers to obtain computing power. Therefore, businesses and consumers can test AI technologies like ChatGPT without sending sensitive data on their own computers.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that PCs powered by Intel chips will be able to run Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot.

Meteor Lake is Intel's first chip to use CoreUltra's new naming scheme. It is based on Intel4's 7-nanometer process architecture and is also the first chip with a built-in neural processing unit (NPU) to improve AI performance.

The above-mentioned chip named CoreUltra is built using Intel's FOVEROS3D packaging technology. It has a new performance core (P core) and energy efficiency core (E core). The focus is to improve power efficiency as much as possible. In terms of performance per watt, its graphics performance will be doubled.

In addition to being equipped with an NPU, CoreUltra chips can also utilize GPUs and CPUs to perform other AI tasks. However, it does not support Thunderbolt5, the new generation connection standard released by Intel last week. It will continue to use Thunderbolt4 and support PCIeGen5.


At the Innovation Conference, Intel demonstrated that a laptop can generate Taylor Swift-style songs while disconnected from the Internet, and can also answer user questions in a conversational manner.

Media comments said that almost every aspect of the CoreUltra chip demonstrates Intel’s next development direction: building efficient and powerful chips to meet modern AI needs.

In addition to Meteor Lake, Intel CEO Kissinger also announced on Tuesday that Intel will launch a series of CoreUltra family members in the next two years, including Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake next year, and Panther Lake the year after. He said the design of Panther Lake was well underway.

The picture below shows a prototype PC displayed at the Intel Innovation Conference. It is powered by a Lunar Lake processor and can run generative AI software demonstrations.


Gelsinger said Intel's factories will start producing the first batch of Panther Lake in the first quarter of next year. That will use Intel's 18A process, which is the last node in Intel's four-year, five-process node plan.

The picture below shows Kissinger displaying a wafer made with the 18A process at the Innovation Conference.