Thursday, August 15th 2024
Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" Launches on September 3: Acer
Intel's ambitious new ultraportable mobile processor series, the Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake," launches on September 3, according to an Acer announcement for a media event covering the launch of its notebooks based on these chips. Acer scheduled this event on September 4, which means Intel to launch these processors no later than September 3. Media events by PC OEMs tend to follow a day after Intel's launch of a new processor generation or platform. A September 3 launch would precede the IFA 2024 Conference in Berlin, which kicks off on September 6, but which is open to press and industry delegates a little sooner, as is the norm for trade shows.
The Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" is Intel's first processor generation to implement MoP (memory on package), eliminating the need for discrete memory modules. This reduces the Z height as well as PCB footprint of the platform, enabling thinner notebooks. MoP also has certain power and latency advantages compared to discrete memory. The compute complex of "Lunar Lake" consists of a 4P+4E CPU with "Lion Cove" P-cores, and "Skymont" E-cores. This is also the first processor to debut Intel's Xe2 "Battlemage" graphics architecture, as it powers its iGPU. It packs a powerful NPU that meets Microsoft Copilot+ AI PC requirements. You can learn all about "Lunar Lake" in our architecture deep-dive.
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The Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" is Intel's first processor generation to implement MoP (memory on package), eliminating the need for discrete memory modules. This reduces the Z height as well as PCB footprint of the platform, enabling thinner notebooks. MoP also has certain power and latency advantages compared to discrete memory. The compute complex of "Lunar Lake" consists of a 4P+4E CPU with "Lion Cove" P-cores, and "Skymont" E-cores. This is also the first processor to debut Intel's Xe2 "Battlemage" graphics architecture, as it powers its iGPU. It packs a powerful NPU that meets Microsoft Copilot+ AI PC requirements. You can learn all about "Lunar Lake" in our architecture deep-dive.
16 Comments on Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" Launches on September 3: Acer
16GB isn't going to be enough from 2025 onwards.
I cannot carry my desktop with me to conferences, to presentations, to work and typing this on an Intel 13th gen workstation right now, none of my windows devices are truly portable. Portability begins with 6-7 hours of high performance use, which Mac delivers.
So unless something revolutionary happens I'll have to let almost universal compatibility go and switch to a Mac as my Studiobook 16 ages in a few years. Macs aren't as compatible, as usable, or as dynamically enabling but I won't have to give up 70% of my performance when I unplug and I can remain uplugged 2-3x as much. This matters.
The real deadly combination is low RAM and a small, soldered down SSD. There's a high probability that swapping will wear down the SSD in as little as a couple years, and voilà, one more kilogram of E-waste.
Not to mention that Intel and Asus doesn't allow me to undervolt this overvolted CPU because I'm not on a gaming laptop (as evidenced by Asus supporting undervolt on cheap strix laptops while they don't in their workstations).
5/7/9 = exact same as i5/i7/i9
NNNV
first digit 1/2= gen number, exact same as always
last two digits for the specific model, i7-1360P -> i7-1370P
V = yeah this one makes no sense.
So basically, bigger is better and you cant go wrong, since they only have one H/V line.
To be honest with you, the 12th and 13th gen confused me more. we had U, P, H, all used interchangeably in 1cm thick laptops leaving you wondering why would anyone be willing to get cpus with 2 P cores and 6 awful e cores at a whopping 1/2k. these ones have literally ONE line (without considering the newly released bottom of the barrel 120U amd-inspired ewaste), so it feels way tidier at least to me.