's (NASDAQ: INTC) Meteor Lake PC CPUs officially launched on Dec. 14, with some laptops built around the new chips already available. One of the big selling points Intel is touting is a built-in AI accelerator. In software that supports it, Meteor Lake chips can offload AI inference tasks to the accelerator, freeing up the CPU and GPU and delivering improved AI performance.

Architecturally, Meteor Lake comes with some big changes. The new chips use the Intel 4 manufacturing process, the first from Intel to make use of extreme ultraviolet lithography. The chips also move to a tile-based design, with different parts manufactured using different technologies.

Not only does Meteor Lake excel at AI tasks, but the new chips deliver significant improvements in power efficiency and graphics. Meteor Lake moves to an Intel Arc GPU, which is twice as performant and twice as efficient as the graphics in Intel's last-generation chips.

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