Internet outage? No problem! Intel's latest generation architecture will unveil its first AI chip by the end of the year.

Recently, Intel has been promoting its flagship super chip, Meteor Lake, with a series of labels, such as the first CPU with different components on each chip and the first built-in dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) co-processor.

At the "Innovation 2023" conference on Tuesday, September 19th, Eastern Time, Intel officially announced that the Meteor Lake processor will be unveiled on December 14th this year. This means that by the end of this year, we will be able to see personal computers (PCs) equipped with Meteor Lake.

Intel claims that the Meteor Lake chip will be able to run generative AI chatbots on laptops without relying on cloud data centers for computing power. Therefore, enterprises and consumers can test AI technologies like ChatGPT without sending sensitive data to their own computers.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger stated that Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, will be supported on PCs powered by Intel chips.

Meteor Lake is the first chip to be named under Intel's new Core Ultra naming scheme. It is based on Intel 4's 7-nanometer process architecture and is the first chip to feature a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to enhance AI performance.

The aforementioned Core Ultra chip with the Intel FOVEROS 3D packaging technology focuses on improving power efficiency, with new performance cores (P cores) and efficiency cores (E cores). In terms of performance per watt, its graphics performance will be doubled.

In addition to the NPU, the Core Ultra chip can also utilize the GPU and CPU to perform other AI tasks. However, it does not support Intel's newly released next-generation Thunderbolt 5 connectivity standard and will continue to use Thunderbolt 4, which supports PCIe Gen5.

At the innovation conference, Intel demonstrated that laptops can generate Taylor Swift-style songs and answer user questions in a conversational manner even when disconnected from the internet.

Media comments indicate that the Core Ultra chip showcases Intel's next development direction in almost every aspect: building efficient and powerful chips to meet modern AI demands.

In addition to Meteor Lake, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger also announced this week that Intel will launch a series of Core Ultra family members in the next two years. Next year will see Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, followed by Panther Lake the year after. He mentioned that the design of Panther Lake is progressing smoothly. At the Intel Innovation Conference, a prototype PC powered by the Lunar Lake processor was showcased, demonstrating the capabilities of generative AI software.

Kissinger stated that Intel's factories will begin production of the first batch of Panther Lake in the first quarter of next year. This will utilize Intel's 18A process, which is the final node in Intel's five-node process plan over four years.

The image below shows Kissinger presenting a wafer manufactured using the 18A process at the Innovation Conference.