The first notebooks based on Intel's new Meteor Lake CPUs could be announced as early as next week by Samsung and other notebook makers.

While no official confirmation from laptop makers has been received yet, this report from Yonhap News (via Tom's Hardware) is very credible.

Therefore, the report that Samsung plans to announce a new Galaxy Book 4 laptop with Meteor Lake next Friday (December 15) makes sense, as does the corollary that competitors such as HP and Lenovo are also preparing to announce new Meteor Lake laptops makes sense, as well as the supplement that "the company is also preparing to launch a new Meteor Lake laptop.

According to a Yonhap report (machine translated from the original Korean), Samsung may be the first to roll out laptops with Meteor Lake.

For those who may not know, Gauss is expected to be a major part of the company's devices in the future, and Samsung has big plans for AI in the Gauss-powered Galaxy S24. However, if this new report proves to be true, Samsung's Gauss (or a variant of it) could also debut in Samsung laptops like the Galaxy Book 4. In fact, if the timing of the launch works out, we may see it debut on a laptop before we see it work on a cell phone, as Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy S24 in January 2024.

And of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg of companies trying to push "AI" into devices. When the first Meteor Lake laptops start launching next month and into the first quarter of 2024 (expect to see many at CES in January), we'll see all kinds of ads touting AI capabilities on the latest laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

And next week, Intel will unveil its first Meteor Lake CPU, which is expected to shake up the industry with a new upheaval.

These will feature a new branding scheme ("Intel Core Ultra") and a new chiplet design that, simply put, will split each chip into three major components (CPU, GPU, and a new NPU (neural processing unit) optimized for AI tasks) The system is divided into the following components.

We expect Intel to be able to deliver on its claims that this new design will improve performance, graphics, and battery life in the best Windows laptops on the market. Since Samsung's laptops usually already perform well in these respects, we would love to see if the company will indeed introduce a new Galaxy Book with a Meteor Lake chip next week.

If it does, we'll get our first taste of the AI-centric laptop future Intel has been pushing so hard for all year.