Intel’s consumer 7nm CPU is called Meteor Lake and gets a stacked design

Intel has provided initial details on its consumer 7nm processors due out in 2023. It is about the Meteor Lake generation and it will be given a chiplet design. Intel also applies its Foveros chip stacking technique.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the manufacturer will be ready to tape-in the compute tile for Meteor Lake in the second quarter of this year . With compute tile he means the chiplet that will contain CPU cores. This shows that Intel will build the Meteor Lake generation from multiple parts, just like AMD is now doing with its Ryzen processors, which have 7nm chiplets with CPU cores and an I / O die. .

It is not yet known what configuration the Meteor Lake processors will get and from which parts the processors are built, but Intel will use its Foveros technology . That’s the name Intel gives to stacking chips. Intel already applies this technique in its Lakefield processors for energy-efficient devices; they have dram on the cpu cores.

The tape-in ​​is part of the processor design process. This allows the design of the chip component chip to be verified. This is followed by the tape-out, the verification of the entire chip design. There it sits according to AnandTech expected four to six months between. After that, the first test production will follow, the actual mass production will take even longer.

Intel has previously indicated that its first consumer 7nm processors will be released in 2023. For that, 10nm processors appear from the Alder Lake generation will appear , for both laptops and desktops. Intel will release it later this year.

It is the first time that Intel provides details about Meteor Lake and mentions that name. References to that name already appeared last year. Gelsinger gave the details during the Intel Unleashed presentation , in which the new CEO spoke about Intel’s future plans.