Intel's announcement coincides with Microsoft's Floor and AI occasion, the place Microsoft leaned on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips for Copilot Plus computer systems, which promise excessive efficiency and longer battery life. Nonetheless, Intel claims its Lunar Lake processors are able to 1.4x sooner efficiency in Secure Diffusion 1.5 in comparison with the Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite.
The Lunar Lake chips could have a CPU, an built-in Xe2 GPU and a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Intel says the Lunar Lake processor presents thrice the AI efficiency of its Meteor Lake predecessor. That's as a result of its NPU is able to over 40 tera operations per second (TOPS) – a far cry from the 10 NPU TOPS supplied with the Meteor Lake chips included in a variety of AI PCs which are already obtainable.
Intel plans to convey its Lunar Lake chip to greater than 80 new laptop computer fashions from greater than 20 laptop computer producers, aiming to ship 40 million AI PC processors by the top of this 12 months.
We're certain to listen to extra about Lunar Lake and the place it stands within the AI computing battleground subsequent to AMD's Zen 5 and Qualcomm's Oryon throughout Computex subsequent month and the Sizzling Chips convention in August.