Intel announces new Lunar Lake chip for AI PCs, expected to launch later this year

Intel has introduced its Lunar Lake processors, which are said to offer 1.4 times faster performance in Stable Diffusion 1.5 compared to Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite chips. Microsoft recently showcased Copilot Plus PCs at their Surface and AI event, utilizing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips for high performance and longer battery life.

The Lunar Lake chips from Intel will come equipped with a CPU, an integrated Xe2 GPU, and a neural processing unit (NPU). Intel claims that the Lunar Lake processor will deliver three times the AI performance compared to its predecessor, Meteor Lake, thanks to its NPU capable of over 40 tera operations per second (TOPS), significantly higher than the 10 NPU TOPS of the Meteor Lake Chips.

Intel’s plan is to include the Lunar Lake chip in over 80 new laptop designs from more than 20 laptop makers, with the aim of shipping 40 million AI-enabled PC processors by the end of the year. The competition in the AI PC market will heat up as Intel’s Lunar Lake competes with AMD’s Zen 5 and Qualcomm’s Oryon, with more information expected to be revealed during Computex next month and the Hot Chip Conference in August.

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