Posted on Tuesday, October 06 2020 @ 11:37 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Intel has prepared the first Linux code for its future Meteor Lake architecture. This will be the first 7nm architecture from the chip giant, with a launch scheduled for late 2022 at the earliest. The code isn't part of the mainline Linux kernel yet but it's set to come with Linux 5.10.
Meteor Lake is Intel's first 7nm microarchitecture not expected until late 2022 or 2023 that will pair "Ocean Cove" with "Gracemont" cores as the successor to Alder Lake. Intel engineers continue doing a lot of bring-up work for Alder Lake in recent months and that work coming together nicely for the Linux kernel and related components like the GNU and LLVM compiler toolchains. With the Alder Lake work beginning to settle down and wanting to ensure great Linux out-of-the-box support in time for launch, attention is turning soon enough to Meteor Lake.
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at Phoronix. On a related note, rumors are going around that Intel's 10nm Ice Lake-SP server processors are further delayed. Originally planned for 2019, it seems these chips may not make it to the market until early 2021.
