The newest chips from Intel -- officially called The Intel Core Ultra family -- offer more than just a speed bump. Meteor Lake is built with Foveros 3D packaging technology, a radical new packaging technology that's Intel's largest architectural shift in 40 years, And Meteor Lake marks not only a fundamental rethinking of Intel’s processor design, but also its approach to fabricating its processors – these are the company’s first mainstream chips to use silicon from a competing fab.
Intel leans on TSMC’s process node tech for three of the four active tiles on the processor, selecting two less expensive TSMC nodes for some functions, and one higher-density and higher-performance TSMC node than its own ‘Intel 4’ node that it uses for its CPU tile.
