Intel has announced that its Meteor Lake CPUs will be the first PC SoCs to feature a dedicated VPU to accelerate Windows 11 AI models.
Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs will be the company's first client SoCs to offer a tiled (chiplet) design that makes use of various IPs. The chip will offer a dedicated compute, graphics, SoC, & I/O title which is Intel's strategy for its future disaggregated chip architecture. One of the key components on these new Meteor Lake CPUs will be the VPU which will be featured on the SoC tile and makes use of AI-based accelerators to power Machine Learning & Deep Learning models on the next-gen version of Windows 11.
Over the next year, Intel aims to ship millions of units of Meteor Lake with its dedicated AI engine.
As Intel scales up even more with subsequent generations of products, that massive surge in scale and volume will put AI accelerated experiences in the hands of hundreds of millions of people and enable the intelligent collaboration, processing speed and capabilities needed to drive unprecedented change.
via Intel
The built-in Neural VPU found on Meteor Lake CPUs is a dedicated AI engine integrated into the chip which combined with additional accelerators featured on the CPU and GPU can deliver a big boost in performance and make your overall experience better in several applications such as the operation of new multimedia features within Adobe Premiere Pro (Auto Reframe and Scene Edit detection).
“We’re excited to collaborate on AI with Intel with the scale Meteor Lake will bring to the Windows PC ecosystem. Together, we are enabling developers to use ONNX Runtime and related toolchains to run their AI models optimally on the Windows platform,” said Pavan Davuluri, corporate vice president, Windows Silicon & System Integration, Microsoft Corp.
In addition to ONNX-RT, with Meteor Lake developers can look forward to:
Leveraging developer tools, including ONNX Runtime support enabled through OpenVino-EP and DirectML-EP.
More effective machine learning on WinML/DirectML for acceleration of neural VPU and GPU.
Microsoft Studio Effects including background blur, eye automatic-framing, voice focus.
via Intel
Intel hasn't announced when exactly Meteor Lake CPUs launch but the company hopes to ship millions of its latest chips by the next year. The company is expected to unveil more details for Meteor Lake CPUs and how it makes Windows 11 better at the Intel BUILD 2023 session today.
In addition to the official announcement, Intel's Core Ultra 7 1003H CPU has also leaked within Pugetsystem's database. This is an upcoming Meteor Lake chip that features the new branding & can be seen labeled as a Meteor Lake-P part with 16 GB DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM memory & an Arc graphics solution which is the integrated part since it features the Alchemist GPU architecture. It's the same chip that leaked out earlier and since then, we have seen multiple Meteor Lake-P CPUs leak out as reported here.
Intel Mobility CPU Lineup:
CPU FamilyPanther LakeLunar LakeArrow LakeMeteor LakeRaptor LakeAlder Lake
Process Node (CPU Tile)Intel 18ATSMC N3BIntel 20A
TSMC N3BIntel 4Intel 7Intel 7
Process Node (GPU Tile)TSMC 3/2nm?TSMC N3B?TSMC N4?TSMC 5nmIntel 7Intel 7
CPU ArchitectureHybridHybrid (Dual-Core)Hybrid (Triple-Core)Hybrid (Triple-Core)Hybrid (Dual-Core)Hybrid (Dual-Core)
P-Core ArchitectureCougar CoveLion CoveLion CoveRedwood CoveRaptor CoveGolden Cove
E-Core ArchitectureSkymont?N/ASkymontCrestmontGracemontGracemont
LP E-Core Architecture (SOC)Skymont?SkymontCrestmontCrestmontN/AN/A
Top ConfigurationTBD4+4 (MX Series)6+8 (H-Series)
2+8 (U-Series)6+8 (H-Series)
2+8 (U-Series)6+8 (H-Series)
8+16 (HX-Series)6+8 (H-Series)
8+8 (HX-Series)
Max Cores / ThreadsTBD8/8?14/1414/2014/2014/20
Planned LineupH/P/U SeriesV-SeriesH/P/U SeriesH/P/U SeriesH/P/U SeriesH/P/U Series
GPU ArchitectureXe3-LPG (Celestial)Xe2-LPG (Battlemage)Xe-LPG+ (Alchemist)Xe-LPG (Alchemist)Iris Xe (Gen 12)Iris Xe (Gen 12)
Xe Cores (Max)12 Xe3 Cores8 Xe2 Cores8 Xe Cores8 Xe Cores96 EUs (768 Cores)96 EUs (768 Cores)
Memory SupportTBDLPDDR5X-8533DDR5-5600
LPDDR5-7500
LPDDR5X-8533DDR5-5600
LPDDR5-7400
LPDDR5X - 7400+DDR5-5200
LPDDR5-5200
LPDDR5-6400DDR5-4800
LPDDR5-5200
LPDDR5X-4267
Memory Capacity (Max)TBD32 GB128 GB96 GB64 GB64 GB
Thunderbolt PortsTBDTBDTBD4 (TB4)4 (TB4)4 (TB4)
WiFi CapabilityTBDWiFi 7TBDWiFi 6EWiFi 6EWiFi 6E
TDPTBD17-30WTBD7W-45W15-55W15-55W
Launch2H 20252H 20242H 20242H 20231H 20231H 2022
“We’re excited to collaborate on AI with Intel with the scale Meteor Lake will bring to the Windows PC ecosystem. Together, we are enabling developers to use ONNX Runtime and related toolchains to run their AI models optimally on the Windows platform,” said Pavan Davuluri, corporate vice president, Windows Silicon & System Integration, Microsoft Corp.
In addition to ONNX-RT, with Meteor Lake developers can look forward to:
Leveraging developer tools, including ONNX Runtime support enabled through OpenVino-EP and DirectML-EP.
More effective machine learning on WinML/DirectML for acceleration of neural VPU and GPU.
Microsoft Studio Effects including background blur, eye automatic-framing, voice focus.
via Intel
Intel hasn't announced when exactly Meteor Lake CPUs launch but the company hopes to ship millions of its latest chips by the next year. The company is expected to unveil more details for Meteor Lake CPUs and how it makes Windows 11 better at the Intel BUILD 2023 session today.
In addition to the official announcement, Intel's Core Ultra 7 1003H CPU has also leaked within Pugetsystem's database. This is an upcoming Meteor Lake chip that features the new branding & can be seen labeled as a Meteor Lake-P part with 16 GB DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM memory & an Arc graphics solution which is the integrated part since it features the Alchemist GPU architecture. It's the same chip that leaked out earlier and since then, we have seen multiple Meteor Lake-P CPUs leak out as reported here.
