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Core 14th generation Meteor Lake engineering sample with 4P+8E has appeared

Processors Intel Core 14th generation Meteor Lake they will probably only be available as mobile processors. One such appeared in UserBenchmark. It was an early engineering sample with the designation U3E1. the latter had a total of 12 cores and support for 16 threads, indicating that there are 4 powerful P-Cores and 8 economical E-Cores. But the benchmark results were quite strange. The application showed a base clock of 1.2 GHz (which we probably won’t be surprised by for an economical mobile processor), but the average clock should have been only 0.55 GHz, which led to very low results, from which we can’t read anything useful for now. But we are also interested in what we actually know about Meteor Lake so far.

They should have a chiplet (tile) architecture with a computing tile, a graphics part and a tile for I/O. As for the computing system, i.e. the CPU part, there should be new Redwood Cove (P-Core) and Crestmont (E-Core) cores. While the engineering sample showed a 12-core 4P+8E configuration (maximum for the U series), the offering should continue up to 14-core 6P+8E models (maximum for the performance series). The Intel 4 production process will be used for the CPU, the integrated GPU (or tiled GPU – tGPU) is to be manufactured at TSMC. There is talk of a chip that could be equipped with up to 128 EUs and 1024 cores (some sources also say 192 EUs).

There is also talk of support for DDR5-5200 (and possibly DDR5-5600) and LPDDR5X-7467 memories with capacities up to 96 GB, or 64 GB. There will be support for Thunderbolt 4, they will handle SSDs with M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4, and for dedicated graphics, the H processor series will also have PCIe 5.0 x8. The news is expected to be presented in the second half of this year.

by Milan Šurkala