New Core Ultra series, Intel confirms Meteor Lake name change

IT House News May 1st, IT House netizens previously discovered that Intel Core Ultra 5 1003H processor has appeared in Ash of Singularity benchmark database, which could represent a whole new product line, at least for mobile devices . platforms, this news has caused concern on Internet.

New Core Ultra series, Intel confirms Meteor Lake name change

Intel Director of Global Communications Bernard Fernandez responded late tonight to confirm that future Meteor Lake processors will be named differently.

Yes, we are rebranding as we are at a tipping point in our customer roadmap in preparation for upcoming Meteor Lake processors. We will provide more details on these exciting changes in coming weeks.

New Core Ultra series, Intel confirms Meteor Lake name change

It is not clear if Meteor Lake processor will replace all i9/i7/i5/i3 with Ultra 9/7/5/3. Bionic_squash reported that Raptor Lake Refresh architecture products will not be replaced with "Ultra" name.

New Core Ultra series, Intel confirms Meteor Lake name change

Intel announced its first quarter 2023 financial results at its conference call, accelerating mass production of 14th Gen Meteor Lake Core processor, scheduled to launch in second half of this year.

New Core Ultra series, Intel confirms Meteor Lake name change

Meteor Lake will be mass-produced using Intel Technology Node 4, and its transistor density (transistor density) and performance per watt (performance/watt) are comparable to TSMC N5 and N4 series nodes.

It's worth noting that AMD made a major naming change to its mobile processors last year, merging three Zen-based products and two RDNA-based products into one series.