Intel Unveils Groundbreaking Lunar Lake Mobile Platform at Computex 2024
“Chips are cool again,” proclaimed Michele Johnston Holthaus, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group, during a series of presentations about Intel’s forthcoming mobile processors. The recent weeks have indeed been eventful for laptop CPUs, with significant announcements and releases from Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel.
Intel has recently unveiled more details about “Lunar Lake,” its next-generation mobile platform, during a prelude to the 2024 Computex trade show in Taiwan. Lunar Lake promises substantial improvements over Intel’s previous mobile chips, 2023’s “Meteor Lake,” which were the first to incorporate local AI or neural processing units (NPUs). The new architecture is expected to achieve up to 120 trillion operations per second (TOPS) in AI benchmarks and features an enhanced integrated graphics core called Xe2. It also focuses on power efficiency and battery life, marking a departure from Intel’s longtime use of simultaneous multithreading technology (SMT), Hyper-Threading.
Though specific details such as processor clock speeds are yet to be disclosed, the emphasis was on the architectural innovations and design philosophy of the upcoming CPU line. This includes Intel’s responses to Qualcomm’s claims about its Arm-based Snapdragon X chips, which were highlighted at Microsoft’s Build conference in May.
Lunar Lake, slated for release in the third quarter of 2024, will be manufactured by both TSMC and Intel, with Intel handling assembly, testing, and packaging using its Foveros 3D stacking technology. These chips follow the Meteor Lake processors and will precede Intel’s “Arrow Lake” high-performance desktop chips.
Key advancements in Lunar Lake include a new GPU, a novel NPU, and redesigned Performance cores (P-cores) and Efficient cores (E-cores) aimed at maximizing battery life. The platform’s AI and integrated graphics performance, memory bandwidth, and power efficiency are also highlighted, addressing the competition with Qualcomm and AMD.
Intel’s strategy involves enhancing the hybrid cores to balance power and efficiency, improving integrated graphics for both display and AI tasks, and optimizing the memory interface for better AI performance. Lunar Lake will use LPDDR5X memory on the chip package, improving memory bandwidth and power consumption, albeit reducing configuration flexibility for manufacturers.
Intel aims to lead the “AI PC” movement, having shipped 8 million Core Ultra parts integrated into over 230 designs, outpacing rivals. Lunar Lake is expected to build on this momentum, emphasizing AI and integrated graphics performance, and overall power efficiency.
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