Wednesday, April 10th 2024
Intel Confirms Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Packs 45 TOPS NPU, Coming This Year
Intel at its VISION conference, confirmed that its next-generation processor for the ultraportable and thin-and-light segments, the Core Ultra "Lunar Lake," will feature an over four-fold increase in NPU performance, which will be as fast as 45 TOPS. This is a significant figure, as Microsoft recently announcedthat Copilot will perform several tasks locally (on the device), provided it has an NPU capable of at least 40 TOPS. The current AI Boost NPU found in Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processor is no faster than 10 TOPS, and the current AMD Ryzen 8040 series features a Ryzen AI NPU with 16 TOPS on tap. AMD's upcoming Ryzen "Strix Point" processor is rumored to feature a similar 40 TOPS-class NPU performance as "Lunar Lake."
Intel also confirmed that notebooks powered by Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors will hit the shelves by Christmas 2024 (December). These notebooks will feature not just the 45 TOPS NPU, but also debut Intel's Arc Xe2 "Battlemage" graphics architecture as the processor's integrated graphics solution. With Microsoft's serious push for standardizing AI assistants, the new crop of notebooks could also feature Copilot as a fixed-function button on their keyboards, similar to the Win key that brings up the Start menu.
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Intel also confirmed that notebooks powered by Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors will hit the shelves by Christmas 2024 (December). These notebooks will feature not just the 45 TOPS NPU, but also debut Intel's Arc Xe2 "Battlemage" graphics architecture as the processor's integrated graphics solution. With Microsoft's serious push for standardizing AI assistants, the new crop of notebooks could also feature Copilot as a fixed-function button on their keyboards, similar to the Win key that brings up the Start menu.
11 Comments on Intel Confirms Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Packs 45 TOPS NPU, Coming This Year
Local AI would be best in company environment searching their own closed data for employ's..
Copilot in general is just another word for web search I have no idea what local means in that respect seeing I doubt anyone would want AI storing web search in bulk on their machines although MS doesn't allow deleting on close edge so they do love storing it locally same for oS user usage hehe
Bottom line "cloud" is just a dog whistle like "AI" is unless it's doing something to improve photos/ videos/ gaming at the users request.
It doesn't say if this is at INT8 data type. I think this is INT8.
Running Copilot locally on a dedicated AI processor circumvents all of those issues. It also helps train it to things you specifically do. The model they ship to your PC is initially trained against an initial data set, probably with a lot of the most common tasks or requests they've gathered through their metrics or feedback channels. There are scenarios that the model hasn't encountered and needs help to be trained on how to do it. This training data could be sent back to Microsoft anonymously to incorporate into their more general model that's then shipped out to everyone else.
My Ryzen laptop is such bliss. Completely throttle free. Works perfectly to AMD's specification. That's how a good design is done.
Not so far fetched actually seeing they already did the win-10 updates bonnet when it first came out
Sharing or receiving updates from others on the internet instead of just from MS servers hehe
Sure household local network can be nice but fact is they activated sending or receiving by default at one time without notice.