Intel launches new mobile processors
Intel presented new mobile processors from the Meteor Lake line-up at the AI Everywhere event. For the first time, the manufacturer is using chiplets and integrating dedicated AI computing units.
With the new Core Ultra 7 165H, Intel wants to leave the competition from AMD with the Ryzen 7 7840U eleven per cent behind. The chip giant also wants to beat the Apple M3 or the upcoming Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3. It is said to consume 25 per cent less energy than its predecessor, the Core i7-1370P. Compared to the chip from AMD, consumption is even said to be up to 79 per cent lower - with the same computing power.
Here is an overview of all the processors presented that will be installed in various notebooks over the next few months.
Source: Intel
The line-up is divided into two parts: U processors are used in thin and light devices. The H processors are installed in conventional notebooks.
Chiplet design
The new Meteor Lake chips promise better efficiency and computing power thanks to chiplet design. In chiplet design, the components of the chip are manufactured individually. This results in fewer rejects than with the monolithic process. The individual components can be produced using different manufacturing processes. The CPU cores, for example, are manufactured using the Intel 4 process. Intel's Foveros technology is used, in which the components are stacked.
NPU
All new CPUs come with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). This contains two Neural Compute Engines (NCE). According to Intel, these enable energy-saving AI acceleration, which should reduce the load on the CPU and GPU cores. This makes AI models such as Stable Diffusion more efficient.
These units will certainly come into play in the next version of Windows. This will make greater use of AI.
Low-power efficiency cores
In addition to the efficiency cores, Intel is now installing even more energy-efficient computing units, the so-called Low-Power Efficiency Cores (LP-E). These are located on the "low power island" of the chip. This is where weak workloads are processed efficiently.
New GPU to catch up with RDNA3
Intel's Xe-LPG architecture offers around twice the performance per watt of the previous generation, according to Intel. It also offers DirectX 12 Ultimate compatibility, media encoders for AV1, H.264, H.265 and VP9 for up to 8K resolution with 10-bit HDR.
MSI, Asus, Lenovo and Acer have already announced notebooks with the new chips. The first devices are expected in shops in the first quarter of 2024.
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