Intel says its upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs will not be coming to desktop PCs

A number of days in the past, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Govt Vice President and Basic Supervisor of Consumer Computing Group at Intel, advised PCWorld that the corporate’s new Meteor Lake CPUs will make their option to desktop PCs in 2024. Seems this isn’t the case, or no less than the normal desktop socket we’re used to.

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Clarifying the feedback, Intel now states Meteor Lake is just coming to AIO desktop options like mini-PCs that use cellular chips instantly soldered to the motherboard.

“Meteor Lake is an influence environment friendly structure that may energy progressive cellular and desktop designs,” Intel clarifies in an announcement made to the German publication ComputerBase. “[This also includes] desktop type components reminiscent of All-in-One (AIO). We could have extra product particulars to share sooner or later.”

This is sensible however can also be a disgrace as a result of Meteor Lake presents Intel’s largest architectural shake-up in a very long time. It is the primary CPU technology to undertake the brand new Core Extremely naming and Intel’s new 7nm Intel 4 course of for improved effectivity.

The largest change comes with how Meteor Lake and the brand new Core Extremely CPUs characteristic a customizable disaggregated design with separate tiles for Compute, Graphics, I/O, and AI. It is set to launch within the cellular and laptop computer area on December 14.

As for desktops, rumors and benchmark leaks level to Intel dropping the brand new desktop Raptore Lake Refresh for utilizing the normal Core i9 and Core i7 branding (and now ageing structure) subsequent month.

Relating to the brand new LGA1851 socket for Intel CPUs that may arrive after the 14th Gen CPUs, it will not be for Meteor Lake CPUs like Intel’s feedback earlier within the week prompt. It will likely be for one thing else. Having totally different chips for the cellular and desktop area just isn’t remarkable; it is truly fairly frequent – we’ll simply have to attend and see what Intel’s planning for the desktop area.