Intel has announced that its Lunar Lake laptop processors will be released in the third quarter of this year. These new x86 chips are designed to enhance the AI experience in Copilot Plus PCs.
This announcement comes alongside Microsoft’s Surface and AI event, where Microsoft showcased Copilot Plus PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips, which boast high performance and extended battery life. However, Intel asserts that its Lunar Lake processors deliver 1.4 times faster performance in Stable Diffusion 1.5 compared to the Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite.
The Lunar Lake processors will integrate a CPU, an Xe2 GPU, and a neural processing unit (NPU). Intel claims the Lunar Lake processor offers three times the AI performance of its predecessor, Meteor Lake, thanks to its NPU’s capability of over 40 tera operations per second (TOPS), a significant increase from the 10 TOPS provided by Meteor Lake’s NPU.
Intel aims to incorporate the Lunar Lake chip into over 80 new laptop designs from more than 20 manufacturers, with a target of shipping 40 million AI PC processors by the end of the year.
Further insights into Lunar Lake’s position in the competitive AI PC landscape, alongside AMD’s Zen 5 and Qualcomm’s Oryon, are expected during Computex next month and the Hot Chips conference in August.
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