During its Q1 2023 earnings, Intel announced that it is ramping production wafers for its Meteor Lake processors for a launch in the second half of this year. These chips will be partially fabbed on the 'Intel 4' process node, a key milestone for the company as it works towards delivering five nodes in four years — a goal that the CEO Pat Gelsiner reiterated is still on track. Intel says that two of those five nodes are almost complete.
Notably, the Meteor Lake processors are Intel's first desktop PC chips that will also use components fabbed on TSMC's process nodes. Intel announced this drastic step two years ago as it grappled with the reality that its process node tech had fallen behind TSMC. For what it's worth, the company announced back in 2021 that these chips would arrive in 2023, and they are obviously still on schedule for that launch. Intel will use this blended chip approach for several new chip generations.
Intel also says that its Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake products remain on schedule to launch in 2024. Intel will use its 3D Foveros packaging tech as the bedrock for the consumer market's Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake processors. This technology allows Intel to stack chiplets vertically atop one unifying base die with a Foveros interconnect. You can read more about that technology here.
