Intel Meteor Lake-P Core Ultra 7 1002H mobile CPU surfaces with 16 cores and 22 threads

After countless rumors and reports, we are finally closing in on the release of the Intel Meteor Lake processors as Team Blue is expected to unveil the CPUs sometime in H2 2023. The Meteor Lake chips are reportedly powerful enough to beat the AMD Zen 4 Phoenix APUs as well as efficient enough to compete with AMD’s next-gen Zen 5 Strix Point APUs.

Although we don’t know what the retail Meteor Lake lineup will look like, we did get to see an unnamed 22-thread Meteor Lake mobile chip running inside the MSI Prestige 16 at Computex. Thanks to InstLatX64 who scoured a boot log, the Intel Meteor Lake Core Ultra 7 1002H has surfaced.

For starters, the Core Ultra 7 1002H processor name is the result of Intel rebranding its CPUs by dropping the “i” moniker in favor of the “Ultra” branding. 

Moving on, the Core Ultra 7 1002H apparently features 6 P-cores, 8 E-cores, and 2 small “e” cores that reside inside the SoC. From a recent leak by Moore’s Law Is Dead, the small Crestmont “e” cores are there to improve idle power consumption. Since the P-cores support hyperthreading, the Core Ultra 7 1002H has a total of 16 cores and 22 threads.

Furthermore, the Core Ultra 7 1002H in question had a base clock of 3 GHz which, as noted by VideoCardz, is 100 MHz lower than the pre-production chip featured inside the MSI Prestige 16.

Fortunately, we won’t have to wait too long to find out more about the Intel MTL-P processors. We are only a few months away from the Intel Innovation event scheduled for September where the company is expected to unveil the Meteor Lake processors officially.

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