Intel introduces Lunar Lake, a Copilot+ AI PC chip

Intel recently announced that Copilot+ AI PCs will be able to use its next Lunar Lake chips starting this autumn. However, the company refrained from providing any technical information until Computex. 

First, an upgraded neural processing unit (NPU) will enable them to provide up to 48 TOPs (tera operations per second) of AI performance. In contrast, AMD unveiled its Ryzen AI 300 chips recently with 50 TOPS NPUs, while Intel’s earlier Meteor Lake chips had 10 TOPS NPUs. 

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In the AI PC market, Intel will once again have to catch up as AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 CPUs and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus will be ready in July. The precise launch date of the Lunar Lake systems this autumn is unknown. 

Even still, Lunar Lake seems like a significant improvement to the devoted Intel supporters. It will also include an AI accelerator with an extra 67 TOPS of performance and a new Xe2 GPU that promises 80 percent quicker gaming performance than the previous version. 

Unexpectedly, like Apple Silicon, Lunar Lake chips will also have onboard memory. Similar to Apple, the CPUs will only support 32GB or 16GB of RAM, and you won’t be able to upgrade later. By reducing latency and system power utilization by forty percent, Intel was able to move the memory much closer to the processor cores. However, if you genuinely require extra RAM, you’re out of luck. You’ll have to wait patiently for Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake processor family.

Furthermore, Lunar Lake will provide eight cores (P-cores and E-cores) with improved performance and efficiency. Additionally, according to Intel, the chip has an “advanced low-power island” to effectively manage background workloads. The business says that battery life is 60% greater than Meteor Lake as a result of that and other enhancements.

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AMD and Intel would stop at nothing to counter Qualcomm’s Copilot+ hardware. Although we haven’t tested them yet, those mobile chips are said to have a battery life of more than 20 hours on Copilot+ Surface machines, demonstrating their inherent power efficiency.

Lunar Lake will support the most recent versions of the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, PCIe Gen5, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi standards. (It’s odd that Intel, which intends to introduce the Thunderbolt 5 standard later this year, isn’t committing to the standard just yet.)

Intel didn’t have any additional details about specific processor models or detailed specifications to provide, considering how far away Lunar Lake is. However, based on the company’s benchmarks, which were made public during a press conference before Computex, it should perform Stable Diffusion much more quickly than Meteor Lake, finishing 20 rounds in 5.8 seconds as opposed to 20.9 seconds. Even though it uses a few extra watts of power, the faster pace should compensate.

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