Intel has announced that its Meteor Lake CPUs will be the first PC SoCs to feature a dedicated VPU to accelerate Windows 11 AI models.

Intel Aims To Ship Million of Meteor Lake CPUs With Dedicate AI VPU Accelerators By Next Year

Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs will be the company's first client SoCs to offer a tiled (chiplet) design that makes use of various IPs. The chip will offer a dedicated compute, graphics, SoC, & I/O title which is Intel's strategy for its future disaggregated chip architecture. One of the key components on these new Meteor Lake CPUs will be the VPU which will be featured on the SoC tile and makes use of AI-based accelerators to power Machine Learning & Deep Learning models on the next-gen version of Windows 11.

Over the next year, Intel aims to ship millions of units of Meteor Lake with its dedicated AI engine.

As Intel scales up even more with subsequent generations of products, that massive surge in scale and volume will put AI accelerated experiences in the hands of hundreds of millions of people and enable the intelligent collaboration, processing speed and capabilities needed to drive unprecedented change.

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Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake client PC processors are the first PC platform from Intel featuring a built-in neural VPU, a dedicated AI engine integrated directly on the SoC to power efficiently run AI models. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

The built-in Neural VPU found on Meteor Lake CPUs is a dedicated AI engine integrated into the chip which combined with additional accelerators featured on the CPU and GPU can deliver a big boost in performance and make your overall experience better in several applications such as the operation of new multimedia features within Adobe Premiere Pro (Auto Reframe and Scene Edit detection).

“We’re excited to collaborate on AI with Intel with the scale Meteor Lake will bring to the Windows PC ecosystem. Together, we are enabling developers to use ONNX Runtime and related toolchains to run their AI models optimally on the Windows platform,” said Pavan Davuluri, corporate vice president, Windows Silicon & System Integration, Microsoft Corp.

In addition to ONNX-RT, with Meteor Lake developers can look forward to:

Leveraging developer tools, including ONNX Runtime support enabled through OpenVino-EP and DirectML-EP.More effective machine learning on WinML/DirectML for acceleration of neural VPU and GPU.Microsoft Studio Effectsincluding background blur, eye automatic-framing, voice focus.

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Intel hasn't announced when exactly Meteor Lake CPUs launch but the company hopes to ship millions of its latest chips by the next year. The company is expected to unveil more details for Meteor Lake CPUs and how it makes Windows 11 better at the Intel BUILD 2023 session today.

In addition to the official announcement, Intel's Core Ultra 7 1003H CPU has also leaked within Pugetsystem's database. This is an upcoming Meteor Lake chip that features the new branding & can be seen labeled as a Meteor Lake-P part with 16 GB DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM memory & an Arc graphics solution which is the integrated part since it features the Alchemist GPU architecture. It's the same chip that leaked out earlier and since then, we have seen multiple Meteor Lake-P CPUs leak out as reported here.

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