Intel Meteor Lake confirmed with new core architecture Redwood Cove & Crestmont
There have been rumors that Meteor Lake will feature a new kernel architecture. The Performance Core will enable the Redwood Cove architecture to replace the current Golden Cove architecture, and the Efficient Core will use the Crestmont architecture instead of the Gracemont architecture.
Twitter user @InstLatX64 discovered data about Meteor Lake in Intel’s open source network repository, confirming that Meteor Lake’s hybrid architecture will consist of Redwood Cove and Crestmont architecture. In addition, the GPU of Meteor Lake will be the Xe-LPG architecture to replace the Xe-LP architecture since the 11th generation Core. It is rumored that the first Meteor Lake samples will ship in the first half of 2023. The desktop platform version is expected to be available for sale in the second half of the year, similar to AMD’s Zen 5 architecture-based processors.
Meteor Lake will adopt a modular design, there should be four different modules, namely the computing module, SOC module, I/O module, and GPU module. These modules can be fabricated at different process nodes, then stacked, and then interconnected using EMIB technology and Foveros packaging technology.
