Intel's design for Meteor Lake processors is progressing well, and it looks like those processors the chip giant will switch to 7nm with are on track to debut in 2023. As Gregory Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of Intel, noted on Twitter Intel customer IT group, Meteor Lake is currently ``registered'' (as seen by VideoCardz).
Great way to start the week! We are currently shooting our Meteor Lake 7nm compute tile, a well deserved celebration by the team on this milestone. #IAmIntel #Innovation pic.twitter.com/oHYhFvo3iF May 24, 2021 More information The registration process refers to the various elements of the processor design being finished, and registration means those bits are all completed and ready to be assembled to create the final chip design. Once this final product has been assembled, Meteor Lake can be 'glued' and is effectively design-ready and ready to roll. When Intel announced that Meteor Lake was in the pipeline for a 2023 debut, the company said it hoped to register the 7nm compute tile sometime in the second quarter. Since we're not even in the last month of Q14 yet, we can vaguely conclude that at this point progress is progressing well with what will likely be Intel's XNUMXth-gen processors.
Lakes of the future
We are currently on Rocket Lake, which is 12th gen, to be followed by 2021th gen Alder Lake later in 10 (13nm+), and there will be another 2022th gen release in 10, which is expected to be Abductor. Lake (a simple update to Alder Lake, still at 14nm, if rumor is correct). The 2023th-gen Meteor Lake could follow in 7, eventually moving to Intel's 7nm process, where AMD is already (courtesy of TSMC) with the Ryzen lineup. Of course, you can't directly compare the processes of different chipmakers (it's not apples to apples, more roughly), and furthermore, processor design and implementation is not limited to just building process chips. However, 15nm is obviously a step up and a very important step for Intel. We've also heard that Lunar Lake could be the 2024th-gen lineup in 7, but those are really the limits of rumored territory at the moment. We should conclude by saying that while Intel is on the right track with Meteor Lake right now, or maybe, just maybe, a little sooner than expected, there's no guarantee that we won't see slippage in other parts of the rollout process. . But one can surely hope that Intel's 10nm ambitions have been well informed by its struggle with XNUMXnm. Today's best processor deals