At Intel, generations of processors seem to be able to be canceled when the development is already very advanced.
An Intel Confidential processor appeared on X.com (formerly Twitter) through a photo that confirms the late change made by Intel.
A real Meteor Lake-S
If you follow the news of the world of processors a little bit, you are aware that the next architecture imagined by Intel is called Meteor Lake.
You also know that a time planned for all lines of Intel processors, Meteor Lake will be mainly limited to the mobile world and that there should never be talk of Meteor Lake-S models designed for our classic desktop PCs.
Instead of these Meteor Lake-S, Intel has actually opted for an intermediate generation called Raptor Lake Refresh before, in 2024, releasing Arrow Lake on all of its ranges.
LGA1851 support
However, shared on X.com by a certain @wnxod, it is indeed a photo of a Meteor Lake-S processor that our colleagues from VideoCardz. A photo, however, a little special.
We can actually read Intel Confidential very clearly on the chip, a designation used by Intel to qualify processors that will not be marketed. In this case, we even spot the QDF4 code which clarifies the engineering sample qualification of said chip. In other words, it’s not even a final version.
However, we see that it is a processor for LGA1851 support, the expected successor to the LGA1700 used on the Alder Lake and Raptor Lake chips. It is noticeable by the identical dimensions of the processor package and the presence of the two notches underlined by @harukze5719 which refers to the information published by Igor’s Lab.
A Meteor Lake-S which therefore does exist, but which should never see the light of day other than by these very few engineering samples. On the other hand, LGA1851 support should be found on our motherboards, with the Arrow Lake generation.
Sources: @wnxod on X.com, @harukze5719 on X.com, VideoCardz
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