Meteor Lake is the next-generation architecture from Intel that will introduce several substantial innovations compared to today's Alder Lake and Raptor Lake, as, in addition to the use of an MCM (Multi Chip Module) design, the new CPUs will make use of Foveros 3D packaging technology for the first time, introduced in 2019 on some FPGAs and GPUs intended for HPC environments.
According to previous leaks, the processors will be based on a hybrid architecture that will use of three different types of cores: the already known P-Core and E-Core introduced for the first time with Alder Lake are joined by the so-called "E-Core LP". The wording "LP" seems to stand for "Low Power", thus suggesting that these are cores operating at very low power and intended to relieve the entire CPU of lighter tasks. In particular, the P-Cores will be based on the new Redwood Cove architecture, while the E-Cores will instead use the new Crestmont design, replacing the Raptor Cove and Gracemont cores of Raptor Lake respectively.
Photo Credit: Intel The Intel Meteor Lake CPUs will rely, as far as the graphics component is concerned, also on the integrated Xe-LPG GPU, a renewed version of the Xe-LP, present in the Tiger Lake series, which will allow you to enjoy better performance and encoding/decoding of multimedia streams. In fact, the Santa Clara company has officially confirmed that 8-bit and 10-bit AV1 video encoding and decoding will be supported, just like the Arc Alchemist series. Undoubtedly, this is a rather interesting feature, as it is a royalty-free codec and capable of offering up to 50% higher efficiency than H.264. AV1 is destined to become one of the most popular formats, so much so that even NVIDIA, with Ada Lovelace, and AMD, with RDNA 3, offer AV1 acceleration via hardware.