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Intel’s Core rebranding exercise offers a glimpse at Meteor Lake CPU specsLike Goro Majima, they’re losing an i
Like Goro Majima, they’re losing an i
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Image credit:Intel
Fresh info on Intel Meteor Lake, the blue team’s upcoming 14th GenCPUfamily, has arrived from an unlikely yet still very official source. See, Intel haven’t revealed the chips themselves, but have announced a rebranding for future Core processors – one that will start taking effect with Meteor Lake. And, in doing so, they’ve let slip some details on the new range’s design and capabilities.
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The announcement also reaffirms the inclusion, on all Meteor Lake chips, of a dedicated AI engine: Intel AI Boost. This sounds like a renaming of the Vision Processing Units (VPUs) that Intel were showcasing at Taipei’s Computex conference in May; a select few Raptor Lake processors also had VPUs, but they’ll come as standard on Meteor Lake. While applications of AI can range from theusefulto thestupid, Meteor Lake being better able to run AI models is probably a worthwhile upgrade, including for gaming. Unreal Engine, OBS, and xSplit are just a few of the apps that can currently take advantage of AI processing.
It already sounds like Meteor Lake is taking a lankier stride forward than Raptor Lake did. The 13th Gen gang weren’t bad CPUs at all, but they were also so similar to the equivalent12th Gen Alder Lakeparts that they never made a convincing value proposition. If Meteor Lake can translate its hardware upgrades into more significant performance improvements, it would be a welcome return to form.
Although, Intel: losing the i is fine but I don’t think I can bring myself to crowbar in a “processor” every time I write a product name. Apologies in advance.
