We’ve known that for some time Meteor Lake integrated will be specially trained for AI-related tasks. Last May, during the Microsoft Build 2023 event, Intel and Microsoft announced an important collaboration in this regard, which is in line with what is already becoming a trend and which will soon become a key element for the sector: bringing AI computing power closer to the PC, something that NVIDIA has been working on for quite some time.

Barely a week after the said announcement, and this time at Computex 2023, Intel showed the 16-core and 22-thread Meteor Lake processor, which nevertheless he stood out especially because he had a VPU(Visual Processing Unit), a key element for certain tasks in which AI-based functions are applied to visual content in real time, the type of functions that have gained a lot of notoriety, for example in the context of video calls.

What we didn’t know and PCWorld just revealed is that Intel will also use AI in Meteor Lake to optimize power management and thus system efficiency. This is particularly interesting because, unlike other uses like the one I mentioned above, which will only benefit people who use this type of functionality, here we find an improvement that will have a direct impact on all users of these integrations.

As you already know, from the twelfth generation of Intel Core (Alder Lake), those integrated brands have two types of cores, performance and efficiency, and it is the system itself that determines the needs for each workload and therefore allocates tasks accordingly. Common on ARM chipsets before, this represented a significant advance on the x86/64 architecture.

Now, with the integration of AI in the Meteor Lake chips, we find an important advance in this regard, because the improvements that DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) can bring are not negligible. According to tests conducted by Intel AI can help improve system responsiveness by 35%, in some cases even more. However, in addition, the AI ​​can also determine when it is the right time to put the CPU back to sleep, which it generates energy saving up to 15%.

How do you know, Meteor Lake will be a generation that will not reach desktop systems, as they get Raptor Lake Refresh instead. So it is clear that Intel has focused on energy efficiency, not because it is not important on the desktop, but because it becomes a key element when we talk about portable systems and therefore autonomy. However, we can expect this AI-based workload management to also make its way into next year’s generation of desktop Cores.