This is what 14th Intel Meteor Lake CPUs look like. Gen, Xeon Sapphire Rapids, and Ponte VSecchio GPUs

The CNET team had the wonderful opportunity to visit Intel’s Factory 42 located in Arizona, United States, where the company is testing multiple packaging technologies and beginning to manufacture the first prototypes of products that we will not see until 2023 or even 2024, and gave us our first look at multiple of these products, including the 14th Intel Meteor Lake CPUs. Gen, the Xeon Sapphire Rapids, and the Ponte Vecchio GPUs, products that will have great innovations in terms of technology and manufacturing.

In this image we have the first image of a Meteor Lake processor, the 14th. Generation of Intel Core processors. During its announcement, Intel had revealed that Meteor Lake would be manufactured at 7nm and would have a total of three different DIEs (One for GPU, one for CPU, and one for I / O), although in the image we see a fourth DIE that does not we know well what function it fulfills. We imagine that Intel will clarify it in the future, although there is still a long way to go to see this 14th. generation in action, so it won’t be anytime soon.

Another interesting image is that of a prototype of a Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPU, the first CPUs to incorporate HBM memory, particularly HBM2e, which will also have up to four CPU DIEs to achieve a high level of performance. We can see that the PCB has extensions on the sides with different test chips, something we do not see in commercial CPUs, so it is interesting to see these prototypes in front of the camera, something that happens very rarely.

Finally, we have what is practically the limit of modern engineering, the Ponte Vecchio GPUs that combine nothing more and nothing less than 47 DIEs including all kinds of chips for computing, AI, memory, I / O, and more, being one of the most comprehensive options to be found in the high-performance computing market in 2022. The Ponte Vecchio packaging combines DIEs manufactured by TSMC plus DIEs manufactured by Intel, and all packaging is done within this blue company plant. Visually it is impressive, and everything indicates that it will also be in terms of performance.

We invite you to visit the CNET page to see all the photos of the plant and some additional photos of these chips. They can do it by clicking here.

What do you think about these Intel prototypes and their top-of-the-line packaging?