In addition to the surprise, Looking forward to the arrival of Lunar Lake with “back to school”, i.e. after the peak of summer. And as you already know, we are talking about architecture called before and after, primarily in relation to its ability to calculate tasks typical of artificial intelligence. It’s not the first step the processor giant has taken, as Intel has already done it with Meteor Lake and Intel Core Ultra, which marked the arrival of NPUs integrated into the x86-64 architecture, but it’s a step that will mean growth. exponential in this sense.

As a preview of what they’ll tell us at Computex 2024, which starts next year on June 4, Intel wanted to advance some key details of Lunar Lakedata that allows us to confirm the information we have previously provided you, and which points to a very promising generation of integrated products.

The first point is, as I mentioned, the one related to its AI computing capacity. You’ll recall that at the end of March, Intel detailed the minimums a computer must meet to fit into the IA PC platform, and a key point of those specs is that its NPU must have less than 40 TOPs of computing power. So it would be surprising if Lunar Lake fell under it, and it obviously didn’t.

As you can see in the image above, The NPU of integrated Lunar Lake devices reaches 45 TOPwhile the GPU, another important element of this generation, will be able to reach 60 TOP. The total set of CPU+GPU+NPU, Intel ranks it above 100 TOPso as software designed to perform AI tasks locally is updated to use this new generation of integrated, we will see an exponential jump in this area.

Another important news already expected is the transition to new CPU cores, both in terms of performance and efficiency. We are talking, as we told you before, about maintaining the hybrid architecture model that already debuted in the twelfth generation Intel Core, with Lion Cove (performance) and Skymont (efficiency) cores.. We expect a jump in performance with regard to Meteor Lake, although all indications are that Intel has focused on energy efficiency in this case, thanks to a new design that promises to offer a significant reduction in consumption without affecting performance. During these months, it was rumored that this improvement would allow some models to perform adequately without the need for active dissipation, making them ideal chips for ultralight notebooks.

Before and after will also be marked in the graphic section the debut of Intel Arc Xe-2, i.e. the long-awaited Battlemage architecture, which we’ve long hoped would fix the problems of The Alchemist, a generation that first had to face many complications. With this important evolution, in addition to the already mentioned computing capacity of 65 TOP, we will see not only an improvement in performance, but also efficiency.

Of course we hope so more information, for example, Intel is bringing the first Lunar Lake samples to Computex 2024, when we will have an official, much more complete picture of the generation of embedded devices that is coming to respond to the demand for systems capable of performing artificial intelligence tasks locally. Here’s everything we’ve published about Lunar Lake so far.

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