Intel's announcement coincides with Microsoft's Surface and ai event, where Microsoft leaned on Qualcomm's Snapdragon x Elite and Plus chips for Copilot Plus PCs that promise high performance and longer battery life. However, Intel claims that its Lunar Lake processors are capable of delivering 1.4x faster performance in Stable Diffusion 1.5 compared to the Arm-based Snapdragon x Elite.
The Lunar Lake chips will feature a CPU, an integrated Xe2 GPU, and a neural processing unit (NPU). Intel says the Lunar Lake processor offers three times the ai performance compared to its Meteor Lake predecessor. This is because its NPU is capable of more than 40 tera operations per second (TOPS), a far cry from the 10 NPU TOPS offered with the Meteor Lake chips included in a range of ai PCs already available .
Intel plans to bring its Lunar Lake chip to more than 80 new laptop designs from more than 20 laptop makers, with the goal of shipping 40 million ai-enabled PC processors by the end of this year.
We'll surely hear more about Lunar Lake and its position in the ai PC battlefield alongside AMD's Zen 5 and Qualcomm's Oryon during Computex next month and the Hot Chip Conference in August.
