TLDR:
- Intel’s Lunar Lake chip for AI PCs will be released in the third quarter of this year
- The chip offers three times the AI performance compared to the current generation, Meteor Lake
Intel has announced that its Lunar Lake laptop processors, designed for AI PCs, will be released in the third quarter of this year. The new x86 chips are expected to offer three times the AI performance compared to the current generation, Meteor Lake. These chips will feature a CPU, an integrated Xe2 GPU, and a neural processing unit (NPU) capable of performing over 40 tera operations per second (TOPS).
Key Elements:
Intel’s Lunar Lake chip offers significant AI performance improvements compared to previous generations. The inclusion of a neural processing unit (NPU) allows for enhanced AI capabilities, with Intel claiming a 1.4 times faster performance in Stable Diffusion 1.5 compared to Arm-based competitors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite.
Intel plans to bring the Lunar Lake chip to over 80 new laptop designs from 20 manufacturers, with a target of shipping 40 million AI PC processors by the end of the year. The chip will be showcased alongside competitors like AMD’s Zen 5 and Qualcomm’s Oryon at upcoming industry events like Computex and the Hot Chips conference.