It was during its Hot Chips conference at Stanford University that Intel announced the use of AI in its 14e generation of processors, the Meteor Lake series. This will mainly be used to optimize the energy consumption of its future CPUs.
The future batch of Intel processors is eagerly awaited, and for good reason: it promises to be very efficient compared to the previous generation. During its recent announcement at Stanford, the company’s leaders placed particular emphasis on the performance of mobile chipsets, which will gain in energy efficiency based on artificial intelligence. As the issue of the ratio between performance and power consumption of portable PCs is still relevant, Intel wishes to remain at the forefront of innovation in this area.
A new technology: Intel Energy Efficiency Architecture
To improve the output per watt of its chips, the company developed an all-new design. Called “Intel Energy Efficiency Architecture”, it may be the new construction standard for all future Intel products. Behind this name hides in fact a scholarly use of the computing power of AI to boost processors without necessarily increasing their raw power.
This new architecture will breathe new life into the Meteor Lakes and make them somehow “smarter”. Thus, they will have the possibility of managing in a more precise way the transitions between an intensive use and a more moderate use. The AI will take care of determining the optimal time for the CPU to switch from one state to another, which will positively impact energy consumption. This operation is called Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling and will even be able to predict CPU usage before it is actually used.
AI at the service of optimization
This new technology is based on a cleverly thought-out algorithm that can learn and anticipate the user’s interactions with his PC, completely autonomously. For example, for the opening of a Web page, it will predict how this one will interact with this one to calculate in which way the CPU will have to work and will then anticipate the next task to come. Initially, Intel had not expected the algorithm to be as efficient and it should logically boost the responsiveness of Meteor Lake processors by 35% when they transition to a state of high demand.
This very innovative approach to CPU architecture using AI is perhaps a taste of what will be the standard of tomorrow. According to Intel’s forecasts, this new design will reduce the energy consumption of their chips by 15%. For now, no official launch date, but rumors hover over a release in October this year.
Source : Digital Trends
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