Intel will introduce new low-power energy-efficient cores in Meteor Lake

Intel adopted a new core design on Alder Lake and introduced a new hybrid architecture on a large scale, bringing performance cores based on the Golden Cove architecture and energy efficiency cores based on the Gracemont architecture. The new heterogeneous architecture is quite different from the previous kernel architecture. Although problems may be encountered in some application scenarios, the continued expansion of hybrid architectures and the introduction of more energy-efficient cores are likely to be the development trend of Intel CPUs in the coming period.This year’s upcoming Raptor Lake is an optimized version of Alder Lake. The basic design is relatively similar, and the manufacturing aspect is also the same Intel 7 process, but on the desktop platform, Intel will introduce more energy-efficient cores. What will really usher in a big change is next year’s Meteor Lake, Intel will use the new Intel 4 process, at the same time, the modular design is adopted, which can be stacked with modules of different process nodes, and then interconnected by EMIB technology and through Foveros packaging technology.

For the first time, there is a piece of information in the information exposed this time. In addition to the previous P-Core and E-Core, Meteor Lake will have a third core called LP E-Core, which is a low-power energy-efficient core. That is to say, Intel’s CPUs are likely to use a three-cluster architecture similar to Arm in the future.