Month: December 2023

Enlarge / Intel's Core Ultra CPUs combine multiple silicon dies into a single chip. (credit: Intel)

Intel announced technical details about its next-generation Core CPUs a few months ago. Codenamed Meteor Lake, the chips are good and bad news for Intel's chip manufacturing ambitions—they're simultaneously the first chips to use the brand-new Intel 4 process and the first of Intel's mass-market consumer processors to use silicon manufactured by someone other than Intel (in this case, TSMC). They're also a showcase for Intel's Foveros packaging technology, which welds together several pieces of silicon ("tiles," in Intel's words) rather than integrating everything into a single monolithic die.

Today, Intel is announcing the first wave of actual Meteor Lake processors, which Intel says will be available in some PCs starting today—expect to see quite a few of these PC designs announced this week, and even more of them at CES next month.

The lineup includes 11 chips across two different product families: H-series processors for thin-and-light workstation and gaming laptops and U-series chips that will end up in Ultrabooks. Eight of these are launching today, and three more are expected in Q1 of 2024. The two families share many similarities, including Intel's first built-in neural processing unit (NPU) for accelerating machine learning and AI workloads, but in short, the H-series chips use more power and include more P-cores and GPU cores.

Enlarge / I'm not 100 percent sure but it looks a lot like the Vistiq will be a three-row SUV. (credit: Cadillac)

Cadillac's product planners sure love the letter Q. Last year the American luxury automaker started building the Lyriq, a rather competent midsize electric SUV. Last month, it revealed plans for an entry-level electric crossover called the Optiq, that goes on sale next year. And today, it tells us there's another new SUV due in model year 2026 called the Vistiq.

Size-wize, the Vistiq slots between the Lyriq and the rather ginormous Escalade IQ due for model year 2025—the brand recognition on that name is far too good to Q-icize it directly. Although we have no details other than the model year and the name right now, there's a fairly good chance the Vistiq will be an electric analogue to the Cadillac XT6.

(Similarly we have no further details on the Optiq yet, other than it will share the same smaller crossover architecture as the forthcoming Chevrolet Equinox and will arrive in 2024.)

Enlarge / I'm not 100 percent sure but it looks a lot like the Vistiq will be a three-row SUV. (credit: Cadillac)

Cadillac's product planners sure love the letter Q. Last year the American luxury automaker started building the Lyriq, a rather competent midsize electric SUV. Last month, it revealed plans for an entry-level electric crossover called the Optiq, that goes on sale next year. And today, it tells us there's another new SUV due in model year 2026 called the Vistiq.

Size-wize, the Vistiq slots between the Lyriq and the rather ginormous Escalade IQ due for model year 2025—the brand recognition on that name is far too good to Q-icize it directly. Although we have no details other than the model year and the name right now, there's a fairly good chance the Vistiq will be an electric analogue to the Cadillac XT6.

(Similarly we have no further details on the Optiq yet, other than it will share the same smaller crossover architecture as the forthcoming Chevrolet Equinox and will arrive in 2024.)