Making an attempt to get a agency deal with on what is occurring with Intel’s next-gen Meteor Lake has been tough. Present rumors recommend that Meteor Lake-S for desktops has been canceled, and changed by a Raptor Lake refresh later in 2023. However now there is a new little nugget of knowledge. It is likely to be important, it may not, however the Linux Kernel now has driver help for Meteor Lake-S.
Say what? Phoronix (by way of Videocardz) stories that Meteor Lake-S help has been added to the Intel pinctrl driver with Linux 6.5. It is not only a random factor both, as different variations of Meteor Lake are already supported.
Meteor Lake-S help in Linux may not imply a lot in any respect. It is likely to be little greater than a checked field as a result of the work was already finished. Or it may imply there will probably be some variant of a Meteor Lake-S desktop chip, or chips. A low-end or low powered variant derived from a laptop computer chip is feasible. Maybe one thing for an embedded system or one thing that would exist alongside Arrow Lake-S chips in the long run.
A Raptor Lake refresh for desktops is certainly incoming. Intel themselves confirmed it by way of its Bilibili account in a put up that detailed Intel’s plans for its next-gen cell and desktop processors,.
We have additionally spoken to distributors in current weeks who hinted that CPUs with greater energy consumption and help for sooner DDR5 reminiscence had been incoming. At Computex, some distributors confirmed off 2nd era Z790 motherboards with improved energy supply capabilities and help for Raptor Lake refresh processors, although clearly they might not say that formally.
The rumor mill relating to Meteor Lake-S has been one of many extra fascinating ones that I can recall. Leakers have prompt that check chip clock speeds had been decrease than anticipated, or its solely had six efficiency cores, it was by no means meant for the desktop in any respect and it was delayed a yr. And but right here it’s, quietly supported by Linux.
On paper at the least, Meteor Lake seems to be like an extremely modern CPU household. The change to a modular tile based mostly design with the potential for a mixture of nodes, Foveros packaging and 3D stacking help all add as much as a dramatic change. And it is one we’ll see in a single kind or one other earlier than the top of 2023.
