Meteor Lake, Intel's first chiplet processor, may now be delayed until 2024
Things just seem to keep getting worse for Intel's Patty G. It all looked so promising when he took over, putting engineering first, with a focus on making sure it delivered on everything it said it would do. And yet the first discrete graphics cards of recent Intel history have still yet to really see the light of day, over a year on from when we first expected them, its server-side Sapphire Rapids chips have been delayed again, and now it looks like Meteor Lake is being pushed back once more.
Maybe Intel should just stop giving even a vague release window. Just do the Valve-time thing of 'when it's ready, it's ready, okay?'
Meteor Lake is the expected 14th Gen Core CPU generation, following on from this year's Raptor Lake update to Alder Lake. But far from being an incremental silicon update, Meteor Lake is due to be another radical change in Intel processor design. As well as using the new Intel 4 process—the name for its 7nm lithography—it will be Intel's first chiplet CPU.
It's also set to sport a vastly improved Arc GPU, what Raja Koduri has called 'a new class of graphics,'(opens in new tab) as part of its multi-chip package. And that's where the latest delay has come to light. Intel is using TSMC's 3nm process for the manufacturing of Meteor Lake's graphics component, as it uses TSMC for the rest of its GPU production, but a new TrendForce report(opens in new tab) (via Hardware.Info(opens in new tab)) is stating that it has now delayed mass production of the chip at TSMC to the end of 2023.
When Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, first introduced the new naming scheme for its future production processes, he spoke about Intel 4, introducing 7nm lithography for its 2023 products including Meteor Lake and Granite Rapids. It
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