For Computex 2023, Intel announced new details about its new AI-focused VPU silicon that will debut in the company's new Meteor Lake chips. The company also outlined its efforts to enable the AI ecosystem for its upcoming Meteor Lake chips. Intel plans to release the Meteor Lake processors, it's first to use a blended chiplet-based design that leverages both Intel and TSMC tech in one package, by the end of the year. The chips will land in laptops first, focusing on power efficiency and performance in local AI workloads, but different versions of the design will also come to desktop PCs.
Both Apple and AMD have already forged ahead with powerful AI acceleration engines built right into their silicon, and Microsoft has also been busy plumbing Windows with new capabilities to leverage custom AI acceleration engines. Following announcements from Intel, AMD, and Microsoft last week about the coming age of AI to PCs, Intel dove in deeper on how it will address the emerging class of AI workloads with its own custom acceleration blocks on its consumer PC chips.
