Intel Meteor Lake, this will be the name of the architecture based on 7nm lithography
It seems, and it only seems, that Intel is accelerating in the development of its lithographs. After the big problems it has had with 10nm lithography and its monolithic designs, with 7nm things could change. 10nm in desktop processors have been years behind and will only be on the market for a very short time. Now the name of the first architecture based on 7nm has been leaked: Meteor Lake.
This new lithograph should arrive in 2023, so there is still plenty of time to see it on the market. It will be the replacement for the Alder Lake architecture, based on the 10nm ++ lithography that will arrive in the year 2022. As it was already leaked a few days ago, the 10nm lithography will only be on the desktop market for one year.
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The 10nm lithograph, as mentioned by Bob Swan, CEO of Intel months ago, is very ambitious, hence the problems. This 10nm lithograph increases x2.7 times the density over 14nm and that's a problem. Due to the monolithic construction of many elements in a DIE, solving all the problems and polishing the process of large chips is very complex. Hence, Intel only makes CPUs based on 10nm for laptops, since they are more 'simple'
Who has the mission of solving all these problems is Jim Keller, AMD's chief Zen architecture development engineer. His hand would already be present in the Alder Lake processors, which would be based on ARM's big.LITTLE design, but under x86 architecture. The big.LITTLE architecture is based on a set of low-power processors with high-performance processors. An architecture especially developed for smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Currently we can only speculate on future Intel lithographs and architectures. If they can get around all the hurdles and put their monolithic design aside, we could see great strides. The company already needs solutions that compete with the Ryzen and it is clear that the 14nm is very outdated. Comet Lake-S is stillborn before leaving and that is not denied.
Source: VZ
