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Intel's First 7nm Client Microarchitecture is "Meteor Lake"

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Intel's first client-segment processor microarchitecture built on its own 7 nm silicon fabrication process will be codenamed "Meteor Lake." The codename began surfacing in driver files and technical documents, one of which was screengrabbed and leaked to the web by Komachi Ensaka. Not much else is known about it, except that it succeeds the 10 nm++ "Alder Lake," an ambitious attempt by Intel to replicate Arm big.LITTLE heterogenous core technology on the x86 architecture, by combining a number of high-power cores with high-efficiency cores on a single piece of silicon. Intel "Lakefield," headed toward mass-production within this year, is the first such heterogenous core.

Older reports throughout 2019-20 speculate "Meteor Lake" (known at the time only by its name), could come out at a time when Intel monetizes its "Golden Cove" high-performance CPU core. It's quite likely that like "Alder Lake," it could be a heterogenous chip targeting several client form-factors, mobile and desktop. The company could leverage its 7 nm process - claimed to rival TSMC 5 nm-class in transistor density - in turning up core-counts over "Alder Lake." We'll learn more about "Meteor Lake" as we crawl toward its 2022 launch window, if it still holds up.



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It's going to crash and burn?
 
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No, it'll probably vaporize you when you overclock it over 4GHz :fear:
 
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SuperNova EVGA PSU....NZXT Panzerbox Case....Meteor Lake CPU...that marketing is working really well for these guys :)
 
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So its dead on arrival?
 
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Pretty sure AMD has absolutely no interest in coming back to foundries especially considering how GlobalFoundries are doing these days. Even more so when we talk about cutting edge nodes. TSMC, Samsung and Intel are putting over $10 billion into foundry R&D each year.
 
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ah a similar leftover from Tunguska disaster? :D

I got the point...
 
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The company could leverage its 7 nm process - claimed to rival TSMC 5 nm-class in transistor density
This line is wrong. Intel's 'future' 7nm will not be similar to TSMC's 5nm, but it could be similar to TSMC's normal 7nm.
 
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Looks like since Intel has hard time to fight AMD, they move to show that less nm will be better for market, but yeah intel should pick another name than lake
 
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I am honestly happy Intel are progressing but Damn do they have a lot of different names floating around, it's getting very confusing.
How anyone keeps up with the vast amounts of lakes ,comets, meteor and crystal based naming schemes, what that represents and when it will arrive is beyond me.
 
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Seriously one more Lake and I'll drown my damn self in it.

Can't we just start a Daily Fable for Intel as a sticky topic? All these announcements aren't really news... its just good comedy.

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This line is wrong. Intel's 'future' 7nm will not be similar to TSMC's 5nm, but it could be similar to TSMC's normal 7nm.
Intel has said 7nm has planned density twice of their 10nm. Their 10nm is about the same density as TSMC's N7. TSMC's N5 is estimated about twice the density of N7.
This puts Intel's 7nm and TSMC's N5 very close to one another in terms of density and due to physical characteristics, also in terms of voltage and power.
 
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Unless the situation improves, the Meteor will just miss the ground landing, like how Cannon failed to blast in time years earlier.
 

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2022 it will be one player only.. AMD
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intel is a Great companies , it will be stronger
 
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I'd change the naming scheme a bit.
Crash lake. MeteorBurn lake. Lack lake or hot lake are catchy :)
Anyway, I'm looking forward for Intel's 7nm. There is no way, Intel will not try to improve products and look at AMD's eating it alive and I'm really looking forward for it these. Knowing that improvement must be done I'm sure Intel will figure something out.
Nuts lake. That one tells a lot :p
 

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Probably referring to the lake the meteor created that wiped out the dinosaurs
 
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Pretty sure AMD has absolutely no interest in coming back to foundries especially considering how GlobalFoundries are doing these days. Even more so when we talk about cutting edge nodes. TSMC, Samsung and Intel are putting over $10 billion into foundry R&D each year.

You misunderstood the person you were replying to, he didn't say "AMD 5nm+" to mean that it was AMD's own personal, in-house, 5nm+ node.... He just meant that AMD will be on that node by 2022.

I am honestly happy Intel are progressing but Damn do they have a lot of different names floating around, it's getting very confusing.
How anyone keeps up with the vast amounts of lakes ,comets, meteor and crystal based naming schemes, what that represents and when it will arrive is beyond me.
I agree totally, it's especially confusing when they have one name for the chipset/platform and another for the CPU generation, for example, how "Sapphire Rapids" CPU micro architecture will be on the "Eagle Stream" platform which will be followed by "Granite Rapids" and preceeded by "Tiger lake" who had an additional successor to "Sapphire Rapids" called "Alder lake"...... Then there are the "non-lakes" like "Basin Falls" which i think was the name for the 7000 series HEDT CPUs, e.g. I9-7980xe
 
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"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them."

intel is a Great companies , it will be stronger

I don't know who gave you that quote, but that could only be written by the victor, not the loser. And we know how, especially in a crisis, many victories are achieved. By being liberal with interpretation of ethics and rules. Mostly to benefit yourself.

So in that sense yeah, Intel is a 'good' company. As in, it works to preserve itself. Not sure if that is a testament to quality anywhere, its certainly not a testament of honesty.
 
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