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 PCs that promise excessive efficiency and longer battery life. Nevertheless, Intel claims its Lunar Lake processors are able to 1.4 occasions sooner efficiency in Secure Diffusion 1.5 in comparison with the Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite.
The Lunar Lake chips will function a CPU, an built-in Xe2 GPU, and a neural processing unit (NPU). Intel says the Lunar Lake processor gives thrice the AI efficiency in comparison with its Meteor Lake predecessor. That’s as a result of its NPU is able to performing over 40 tera operations per second (TOPS) — a far cry from the ten NPU TOPS provided with the Meteor Lake chips included in a spread of AI PCs which are already obtainable.
Intel plans on bringing its Lunar Lake chip to over 80 new laptop computer designs from over 20 laptop computer producers, with the purpose of delivery 40 million AI PC processors by the tip of this yr.
We’ll actually hear extra about Lunar Lake and the place it stands within the AI PC battleground subsequent to AMD’s Zen 5 and Qualcomm’s Oryon throughout Computex subsequent month and the Scorching Chips convention in August.