At Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, Intel and Altera, a company, announced new processors, FPGAs, and programmable solutions optimized for edge computing that extend artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to edge computing. The most striking of these is the Core Ultra processor of the Meteor Lake-PS series.
After several reversals, Intel eliminated Meteor Lake for desktop platforms and only targeted mobile platforms in the consumer market, where engineering samples were already available. However, with the exposure of the new industrial motherboard for edge computing some time ago, people found that Intel resurrected the Meteor Lake-S that supports LGA 1851 sockets in another way, and the solution abandoned by the client computing group was transformed into Meteor Lake-PS appeared in the product line of the network and edge group.
The Meteor Lake-PS series is divided into 45W and 15W models with the former suffix "HL" and offers the Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 5, and the latter with the suffix "UL" and offers the Core Ultra 3, for a total of 9 products.
At the same time, the 45W model has an Intel Arc GPU, and the 15W model has Intel Graphics, which is the same distinction as the Core Ultra processor used in the laptop.
Meteor Lake uses the second generation of hybrid architecture technology, P-Core uses the Redwood Cove architecture instead of the Golden Cove architecture, and E-Core uses the Crestmont architecture instead of the Gracemont architecture. In addition, the new low-power LPE-Core has been added, and the NPU introduced can better share different AI tasks, which is also the main selling point of Intel's promotion.
Intel plans to launch the Arrow Lake-S in the fourth quarter of 2024, which is the Core Ultra 2 series processors, which also use LGA 1851 sockets, and it is not known if the matching 800 series motherboards will support these Meteor Lake-PS series processors.