At an investment meeting last Thursday (27), Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger detailed the company’s plans for the coming years, highlighting the next generation of home processors and servers.
Gelsinger started his presentation by explaining more about the 14th generation processors codenamed Meteor Lake. CPUs are based on a foundation manufacturing process with only 4nmand the first phase of chip production will begin in the last quarter of 2022.
Production is already more advanced with Xeon CPUs using the Granite Rapids terminology, and models are only 3nm lithographybut it will only be released in 2024. These processors are still Sierra Forest productivity kernels with the new hybrid architecture.
Like Meteor Lake, this significant decline in lithography is due to the advent of a used technology. Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) machines speeding up production and making further leaps in product performance. EUV is basically a photolithography process that projects images onto silicon wafers by light, facilitating etching of the material. However, as expected, this should directly affect the price of future processors as it is a more complex production.
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In addition, the company is already working more deeply on the 18A and 20A nodes. RibbonFET technology with PowerViaprovides up to 15% gains in energy efficiency. Models that will integrate processors for home and professional use will only reach the public from 2024.
For 2023, Intel plans to launch Xeon Emeral Rapids on the same platform alongside Sapphire Rapids to create a broader ecosystem for these products. Basically, it seems to be a similar strategy to what was done on 12th and 13th generation home CPUs with the same LGA 1700 socket.
Source: Tec Mundo
