Intel’s going inside AI PCs, too — its Lunar Lake chip is coming later this year

May 21, 2024 04:14 AM - 5 months ago 60596

Intel has revealed a merchandise window for its Lunar Lake laptop processors. The caller x86 chips will get successful nan 3rd 4th of this year, and they’re designed to alteration nan new AI acquisition successful Copilot Plus PCs.

Intel’s announcement coincides pinch Microsoft’s Surface and AI event, wherever Microsoft leaned connected Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips for Copilot Plus PCs that committedness precocious capacity and longer artillery life. However, Intel claims its Lunar Lake processors are tin of 1.4 times faster capacity successful Stable Diffusion 1.5 compared to nan Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite.

The Lunar Lake chips will characteristic a CPU, an integrated Xe2 GPU, and a neural processing portion (NPU). Intel says nan Lunar Lake processor offers 3 times nan AI capacity compared to its Meteor Lake predecessor. That’s because its NPU is tin of performing complete 40 tera operations per second (TOPS) — a acold outcry from nan 10 NPU TOPS offered pinch nan Meteor Lake chips included successful a scope of AI PCs that are already available.

Intel plans connected bringing its Lunar Lake spot to complete 80 caller laptop designs from complete 20 laptop manufacturers, pinch nan extremity of shipping 40 cardinal AI PC processors by nan extremity of this year.

We’ll surely perceive much astir Lunar Lake and wherever it stands successful nan AI PC battleground adjacent to AMD’s Zen 5 and Qualcomm’s Oryon during Computex adjacent period and nan Hot Chips conference successful August.

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