Intel has teased Lunar Lake mobile processor ahead of the Computex trade show, promising it to be the most power-efficient x86 chip yet.
Lunar Lake, the successor to Meteor Lake, is Intel’s second mainstream tiled CPU. It brings new CPU and GPU architectures, offering an iterative improvement over Meteor Lake. The company has been promoting Lunar Lake as a highly efficient mobile processor since its initial demo last fall.
The focus of Lunar Lake is on power efficiency and AI. Intel claims that Lunar Lake will have 3X the AI performance of their current Meteor Lake SoC. This is impressive as Meteor Lake is estimated to be running around 34 TOPS combined with the NPU, GPU, and CPU. Intel claims that the NPU on Lunar Lake will hit a large 45 TOPs, akin to the Hailo-10 add-in card and similar to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processor. Factoring in the integrated graphics and the compute cores, Intel is claiming a combined total of over 100 TOPS.
The company has also announced that Lunar Lake laptops will not hit retail shelves until Q4 of this year. Despite this, Intel is making a bold move to interdict the Snapdragon X launch, showcasing the tumultuous state of the laptop CPU market.
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