From PC World: Intel’s Core Ultra era begins now! Intel is shipping its first “Meteor Lake” 14th-gen Core Ultra chips in laptops beginning today, ushering in the new “AI PC” era — as well as actually telling you what’s in them and how fast they’re expected to be.
Though leaked benchmark results, we’ve known a bit about Intel’s Core Ultra product lineup. But now it’s official: Intel will offer eleven new mobile Core Ultra processors, both in the “H” high-performance segment and the low-power “U” family. Intel has disbanded the earlier “P-series” lineup. Not surprisingly, Intel is claiming performance leadership over AMD’s Ryzen chips, though the comparisons are being made to the older Ryzen 7000 or Ryzen 7040 family rather than the just-announced Ryzen 8000 CPUs.
As Intel spelled out in our deep dive into the Meteor Lake architecture, Core Ultra’s selling points are significantly lower power via its use of the Intel 4 process technology, plus a sharp boost in graphics performance. The third pillar, AI, is a little murkier: The rise of the AI PC may be a bit slower than Intel would like, as software developers learn and take advantage of the new “neural processing unit” inside Meteor Lake throughout 2024. Incidentally, that’s when you’ll have to wait for the first Core Ultra 9 chip.
These Core Ultra processors — aside from three which will launch in the first quarter or 2024 — will appear in more than 230 unique PCs from more than 35 PC makers, Intel said, beginning with laptops shipping today. We know of what Acer and Lenovo are planning, among others.
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