Intel’s Lunar Lake processor to arrive in Q3 2024: Promises to offer enhanced AI performance

Intel has announced that starting in Q3 2024, its upcoming Lunar Lake client processors will be featured in over 80 new laptop designs across more than 20 original equipment manufacturers. These processors will deliver AI performance at a global scale for Copilot+ PCs.

Lunar Lake will receive Copilot+ features, such as Recall, through an update when available. Building on the success of Intel Core Ultra processors, Intel plans to ship over 40 million AI PC processors this year, including the addition of Lunar Lake.

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Lunar Lake is anticipated to be a groundbreaking mobile processor for AI PCs, offering over three times the AI performance of the previous generation.

With more than 40 NPU tera operations per second (TOPS), Intel’s next-generation processors will deliver the capabilities required for the upcoming Copilot+ experiences.

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Alongside the enhanced NPU, Lunar Lake will also feature over 60 GPU TOPS, providing a total of more than 100 platform TOPS, according to the company.

As part of the AI PC Acceleration Program, Intel is working with over 100 independent software vendors to enhance AI PC experiences across various domains. These include personal assistants, audio effects, content creation, gaming, security, streaming, video collaboration, and more.

What is an AI PC?

An AI PC is equipped with a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), and a neural processing unit (NPU), each designed with specific AI acceleration capabilities. An NPU is a specialised accelerator that efficiently manages AI and machine learning (ML) tasks directly on the PC, eliminating the need to send data to the cloud for processing. As the demand for automating, streamlining, and optimizing tasks on PCs continues to grow, the AI PC is becoming increasingly essential.