Intel denies Meteor Lake is delayed to 2024, says consumer chips will launch in 2023

Intel had an incredibly rough quarter, unexpectedly losing half a billion dollars due to a PC purchasing slump, and yesterday seemed like more bad news, as a report from Trend Force about manufacturing delays sparked rumors that Intel's next big flagship processor would be delayed until 2024. In a February investor meeting, Intel said that the lake would be powered on this summer.

The rumors that Intel is denying are not only false, but that the product will be available to consumers in 2023.

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One of the company's most important developments in a long time is Meteor Lake. It is the first client processor on the Intel 4 architecture and the first major release from Intel to use a chiplet design. Intel had already begun moving to hybrid chips with its 12th GenAlder Lake's mix of performance and efficiency cores, but that's not the same thing.

It won't be a surprise to anyone who listened to Intel's Q2 earnings call that Meteor Lake is still on track. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told investors that the company would deliver Meteor Lake in 2023, saying that it was showing "good health in both our and our customers' labs"

It isn't the same as being ready for a consumer launch, but now, Intel is clarifying that it will be ready for consumers in 2023 as well.

According to a report by TrendForce, Intel wouldn't begin mass production of a key component until the end of 2023, and that this incident has greatly affected TSMC's production expansion plan. TSMC denied that its capacity expansion project had been affected in a statement to China.

During its Q2 earnings call, Intel stated that it had shipped 35 million units of its 12th GenAlder Lake processors. The Intel 13th Gen Core should come later this year.