That’s wonderful news for Intel since Meteor Lake is one of the most significant innovations in the company’s history. It’s not only the first client processor based on Intel’s Intel 4 architecture (formerly known as 7nm) and reportedly the first to use extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) in manufacturing, but it’s also Intel’s first major release to use a chipset design, in which processor components can be combined more like Legos. Intel had previously begun to move toward hybrid processors with its 12th Generation Alder Lake’s blend of performance and efficiency cores, which is akin to a smartphone chip, but it is not the same thing.
Anyone who heard of Intel’s Q2 2022 earnings call will be unsurprised that Meteor Lake is still on pace. There, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger assured investors that Meteor Lake will be delivered in 2023, citing “excellent health in both our and our customers’ laboratories” and having previously been “broadly tested to customers.”
