After what feels like a long drawn out waiting period, Intel and its 14th Gen Meteor Lake mobile CPU lineup will finally be available to the masses starting today. To be more precise, the CPUs will be available in the products of Intel partner brands starting next year, with virtually all of them being on display at CES 2024.
Then as now, the new Meteor Lake mobile CPUs will be available in two groups: H-Series and U-Series. The H-Series represents the high performance and feature five Core Ultra SKUs. These models are as listed below:
- Core Ultra 5 125H
- Core Ultra 5 135H
- Core Ultra 7 155H
- Core Ultra 7 165H
- Core Ultra 9 185H
The total core count and threads starts from 14-cores, 18-threads, and pushes all the way up to 16-cores, 22-threads. Those extra two cores at the end come from the lower power (LP) E-Cores that will now become standard additions with all Intel processors, moving forward.
Then, as now, the Meteor Lake U-Series CPUs are designed for the thin and light form factors and based on what was shown earlier in the year at Intel’s Tech Day, a significantly extended battery life with these processors – by Intel’s account, we’re talking within the boundaries of 22 hours on average now – can be expected. The CPUs in this lineup are as listed below:
- Core Ultra 5 125U
- Core Ultra 5 134U
- Core Ultra 5 135U
- Core Ultra 7 155U
- Core Ultra 7 164U
- Core Ultra 7 165U
It should also be noted that of the two Series, only the H-Series SKUs have the pleasure of being equipped with Intel ARC graphics cores, while the U-Series will only be fitted with the bog standard Xe cores. Regardless of the chipmaker’s internal favouritism, all models are graced with the same NPU, enabling all of them to drive AI-related tasks in one form or another. That, and the fact that all CPU models are fitted with two new LP E-Cores that spring into action for mundane tasks on the laptop, such as streaming a video or music service in the background, while powering down the other P-Cores and E-Cores.
To recap, the Meteor Lake series is based on a new self-named Intel 4 series, which is in essence its own 7nm process node. On top of that, the new CPU is built with the chipmaker’s new Foveros advanced packaging technology, using very low-power and high density die-to-die connections.
Being introduced with Meteor Lake as well is Intel’s new Tile Architecture, where the CPU core is asymmetrically segmented into four tiles: the SoC tile, Compute Tile, the IO tile, and the Graphics Tile. This, in turn, allows the company to not only keep its P-Core and E-Core design, it also enables it to add in two of the Low Power Island E-Cores that, as mentioned, take over the work that would otherwise be done by the E-Cores. Vastly improving power efficiency. And before you ask: Yes, Thread Director is still there.
Meteor Lake is also the first CPU lineup to have Intel’s ARC GPU technology integrated into them but again, as earlier, these GPU cores will only be found in mobile CPUs in the H-Series. Specs-wise, the CPUs can house up to eight Xe Cores, 128 Vector Engines, two Geometry Pipelines, eight Samplers, four Pixel Backends, and eight ray-tracing units, the last one making it one of the first integrated GPUs within a mobile chipset to support the global illuminating feature.
(Source: Intel)
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