. . . uh oh.
The story I've heard is that everyone was just called into the main conference room, and shown a presentation of basically "This is Meteor Lake now". Supposedly elicited a mixture of silence and chuckling.Hmm, kind of weird since Intel has been pushing multiple dice on package (EMIB, FOVEROS) for quite a while. What the heck is going on with that company?! Gee, let's NOT use the packing tech that WE developed
For this reason, COVID-instigated hiring freezes, the addition of Arrow Lake, and Microsoft poaching half of Intel's best talent in Oregon, I consider myself a Meteor Lake sceptic even independent of any process issues.
And Ajay, right tool for the job. Advanced packaging is a useful tool, but doesn't beat monolithic in performance or power. And iirc, at the time, MTL was still more low power targeted. Though with process issues and a more flexible lineup, it might not be a bad idea in retrospect. But IDC will probably do things differently for Lunar Lake and whatever else they own.