Monday, May 20th 2024
Intel's Lunar Lake Processors Arriving Q3 2024
Starting Q3 2024 in time for the holiday season, Intel's upcoming client processors (code-named Lunar Lake) will power more than 80 new laptop designs across more than 20 original equipment manufacturers, delivering AI performance at a global scale for Copilot+ PCs. Lunar Lake will get the Copilot+ experiences, like Recall, via an update when available. Building on the success of Intel Core Ultra processors and with the addition of Lunar Lake, Intel will ship more than 40 million AI PC processors this year.
"With breakthrough power efficiency, the trusted compatibility of x86 architecture and the industry's deepest catalog of software enablement across the CPU, GPU and NPU, we will deliver the most competitive joint client hardware and software offering in our history with Lunar Lake and Copilot+," said Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group.
What the AI PC is: An AI PC has a central processing unit (CPU), a graphic processing unit (GPU) and a neural processing unit (NPU), each with specific AI acceleration capabilities. An NPU is a specialized accelerator that efficiently handles AI and machine learning (ML) tasks right on your PC instead of sending data to be processed in the cloud. The AI PC is increasingly important as the need to automate, streamline and optimize tasks on the PC grows.
Why It Matters: Lunar Lake is expected to be a groundbreaking mobile processor for AI PCs with more than 3 times the AI performance compared with the previous generation. With more than 40 NPU tera operations per second (TOPS), Intel's next generation processors will provide the capabilities necessary for Copilot+ experiences coming to market. In addition to the higher performing NPU, Lunar Lake will also be equipped with over 60 GPU TOPS delivering more than 100 platform TOPS.
"The launch of Lunar Lake will bring meaningful fundamental improvements across security, battery life, and more thanks to our deep co-engineering partnership with Intel. We are excited to see Lunar Lake come to market with a 40+ TOPS NPU which will deliver Microsoft's Copilot+ experiences at scale when available," said Pavan Davuluri, corporate vice president of Windows + Devices at Microsoft.
A holistic approach to AI requires a robust software enablement infrastructure alongside hardware innovation. As part of the AI PC Acceleration Program, Intel is working with more than 100 independent software vendors to enhance AI PC experiences for personal assistants, audio effects, content creation, gaming, security, streaming, video collaboration and others.
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"With breakthrough power efficiency, the trusted compatibility of x86 architecture and the industry's deepest catalog of software enablement across the CPU, GPU and NPU, we will deliver the most competitive joint client hardware and software offering in our history with Lunar Lake and Copilot+," said Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group.
Why It Matters: Lunar Lake is expected to be a groundbreaking mobile processor for AI PCs with more than 3 times the AI performance compared with the previous generation. With more than 40 NPU tera operations per second (TOPS), Intel's next generation processors will provide the capabilities necessary for Copilot+ experiences coming to market. In addition to the higher performing NPU, Lunar Lake will also be equipped with over 60 GPU TOPS delivering more than 100 platform TOPS.
"The launch of Lunar Lake will bring meaningful fundamental improvements across security, battery life, and more thanks to our deep co-engineering partnership with Intel. We are excited to see Lunar Lake come to market with a 40+ TOPS NPU which will deliver Microsoft's Copilot+ experiences at scale when available," said Pavan Davuluri, corporate vice president of Windows + Devices at Microsoft.
A holistic approach to AI requires a robust software enablement infrastructure alongside hardware innovation. As part of the AI PC Acceleration Program, Intel is working with more than 100 independent software vendors to enhance AI PC experiences for personal assistants, audio effects, content creation, gaming, security, streaming, video collaboration and others.
21 Comments on Intel's Lunar Lake Processors Arriving Q3 2024
The AI will be used to more efficiently scrape all your data to sell to everyone else. Ont he side it may be used to enforce draconian controls on your PC or monitor your behavior to see if you are NAUGHTY and should have your accounts banned.
Look I would love to see Intel actually deliver on hype for once, but Meteor Lake is an embarrassing let-down from the promises, so I will not be holding my breath.
This whole copilot+ stuff though is the beginning of the end for M$. Rendering brand new hardware essentially obsolete, recording everything you do and storing it, this is pure effing madness for what is total useless AI BS.
Imagine buying a laptop with Meteor Lake or Hawk Point and finding it can't run Windows 11 24H2 in a few months. Total BS.
Those weak pieces of hardware can hardly be capable of anything people will be excited about - right now they're bussy renaming anything that could be accelerated with CUDA, GPU into "AI". But this won't be enough.
So I predict two things will happen:
1. They will tie sone basic functionality of Windows, like making "AI explorer search", and by using older CPU you will be constantly reminded you're missing core functions.
2. They will tie AI functions into using "server and client" AI hardware, so even things that run solely on the server side will require the client side of hardware acceleration. Want to use the newest AI chat? Generate an image? Use AI assisted NPC in games? Too bad, you have one of those dinosaur, AI incapable computers, buy a new one!
A 750ti gpu is matching the most powerful NPU for any TOPS so I cant imagine anyone needing real inference computation is going to be using this.
Also I wonder if this CPU (compute tile) will be manufactured at Intel or TSMC foundries. I guess all the tiles will be from TSMC.
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