Intel Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' Chips launch in December

Intel has announced that its ‘’meteor lake’’ processors will be launched by the end of the year.

The new Intel Core Ultra chips have been built using the company's 7nm "Intel 4" technology and are the first processors from Intel to be equipped with a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) for improved on-device AI performance.

According to a report, the launch date of the meteor lake chips had been set for December 14 this year.

Reports said that the company intended to replace its ‘’Raptor Lake’’ CPU, which were introduced last year, with the new chips.

The new chip has been termed Intel Core Ultra and according to the company it reflected a major shift for it. It also said that the new Meteor Lake processor would be using less power.

According to some reports, the Meteor Lake CPUs were meant essentially for the laptop users. It will also have much better battery efficiency, as well as the company's first integrated NPU AI engine.

The processor also has dedicated tiles for Media and Graphics, and they can also be turned on and off independently.

Connectivity options on the "I/O Tile" Meteor Lake processors include Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, native HDMI 2.1, Display Port 2.1, PCIe Gen 5, and Thunderbolt 4. it appears that customers will have to wait a few more months before Intel introduces the first chips with support for the the recently announced Thunderbolt 5 standard.

Intel has also touted the ability of its Meteor Lake 'Intel Core Ultra' chips to run AI tasks using the built-in NPU. The chips are expected to be able to run generative AI tools similar to ChatGPT on their computer without sending data to a cloud service. The dedicated NPU should also offer improved performance when using AI features that are expected to make their way to Windows in the future.