The on/off saga of Meteor Lake for desktops has been settled as soon as and for all. It has been confirmed. Meteor Lake might be coming to desktops.
In an interview with PCWorld throughout Intel’s Innovation occasion, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, the chief vice chairman and normal supervisor of the shopper computing group, went on the document and categorically confirmed that Intel’s thrilling new structure might be coming to desktops a while in 2024.
Listed here are the cash quotes, from the 6.30-mark of the PC World interview.
Q: Let me ask you, is there going to be a Meteor Lake desktop?
A: Desktop will are available in 2024.
Q: So you’re confirming Meteor Lake desktop?
A: Sure.
There it’s people,. If anybody would know the reply, it is the large boss of the shopper computing group, which incorporates all issues desktop.
The affirmation of desktop Meteor Lake brings extra questions and contours of hypothesis. Firstly, a launch date of 2024 may be very broad. We all know Raptor Lake Refresh fashions are coming shortly, with a full household of 14th-Gen merchandise to comply with within the months forward. Arrow Lake, the desktop successor to Raptor Lake Refresh, is anticipated in late 2024.
Until Intel has effectively and actually left the leakers bamboozled, my guess is that Meteor Lake for desktops will seem in OEM- or NUC-class programs. I’d place a wager that we cannot see Meteor Lake Okay-class CPUs. I can not see why Intel would launch a Raptor Lake refresh whether it is to be outdated so shortly. Although if you happen to recall, eleventh Gen Rocket Lake had a brief shelf life, launching in March 2021, simply eight months earlier than twelfth Gen Alder Lake in October 2021. So, something is feasible.
One other risk is that we’ll get some type of APU-type chip, with a give attention to built-in graphics or AI acceleration. A Meteor Lake system with Xe-LPG graphics, DP 2.1, WiFI 7, AV1 encode help, with decrease energy consumption and excellent IPC sounds fairly good to me, even in a gaming system. Maybe a handheld gaming PC?
I am additionally very curious to see what socket these chips will discover their method into. LGA1851 is the apparent reply, although I might nonetheless lean in the direction of a bespoke ecosystem to begin with, with OEM boards or embedded options. I can not see DIY desktop LGA1851 motherboards launching till a top-to-bottom alternative for 14th Gen—the rumored Arrow Lake, launches in late 2024 on the earliest.
Keep tuned. The on, off, and on once more saga of desktop Meteor Lake has some extra chapters to be written.
