Not to be completely outshone by Qualcomm, Intel has released preliminary details of its forthcoming Lunar Lake processors for AI PCs, claiming that they will power 80 new laptop designs from over 20 OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers).
To underline its market leadership, the company says that it will ship 40 million AI PC processors this year, including its current Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) models. It also adds that it is working with over 100 independent software developers as part of its AI PC Acceleration Program and that more than 500 AI models run on its Intel Core Ultra processor.
Intel is making some bold performance promises of a total of over 100 TOPS (tera operations per second) for Lunar Lake. This includes up to 45 TOPS for the processor’s enhanced NPU (neural processing unit) to meet the standard required for running Microsoft’s Copilot+ and 60 TOPS for its new Xe2 generation GPU architecture, code named Battlemage.
The company is also touting power efficiency improvements, claiming that Lunar Lake consumes up to 30% and 20% less power than the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and the aging Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 respectively.
Intel says that development on Lunar Lake is already complete, and it expects to begin shipping the processor to OEMs in Q3 this year so that laptops featuring the processor will hit the shelves in time for the holiday season.
No doubt Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will have much more to say about Lunar Lake during his Computex keynote on June 3!
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