Daily Tech News 20 September 2023

• Intel announced its Meteor Lake 14th (?) generation laptop chips, due to launch December 14. (AnandTech)
  
  Meteor Lake is a laptop-only design; on desktop we're getting warmed-over 13th generation designs this year.
  
  The laptop chips are built on Intel's new 4nm process - at least parts of them are. Each CPU is made up of four smaller chiplets, which interestingly is something AMD does with its desktop CPUs but not with mainstream laptop parts.
  
  They come with new CPU cores - both the Performance and Efficiency cores have received updates - and a 33% larger GPU, which will move it from half the speed of AMD's current chips to two thirds.
  
  
  

• Intel also showed off an early engineering sample of Lunar Lake, a low-power CPU due some time next year. (AnandTech)
  
  This looks to be built on Intel's even newer 2nm process, though we don't know much yet except that the sample works well enough to risk a live demo.
  
  Lunar Lake will be followed in 2025 by Panther Lake, about which we know nothing at all.
  
  
  
• Intel Announces 288-Core Sierra Forest CPU, 5th-Gen Xeon Arrives December 14/ (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which is like saying US Bombs Hiroshima, Hitler Dead, because while both statements are true they are entirely unconnected.
  
  Intel's 5th generation Xeons, codenamed Emerald Rapids, will have up to 64 cores, competing with AMD chips with 96 or 128 cores.
  
  The 288 core chip - built with lower-performance Efficiency cores only - will arrive some undefined amount of time later.
  
  
  
• Netgear's Orbi 970 WiFi 7 mesh system offers 10Gb network ports and up to 10Gbps of wireless bandwidth between the nodes. (AnandTech)
  
  Sounds great. I might not have to get an electrician in to wire the other three rooms with Cat 6.
  
  Prices start $1699 for the router and one satellite node, and another $899 for additional satellites.
  
  Scratch that idea.

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