During the principle keynote at Intel Vision 2024, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger flashed a accomplished Lunar Lake chip off, very similar to EVP and General Manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG) Michelle Johnston Holthaus did again at CES 2024. The distinction between the 2 glimpses of the Lunar Lake chip is that Pat Gelsinger gave us one thing juicier than only a photograph op. He clarified and claimed the degrees of AI efficiency we will anticipate to see when Lunar Lake launches.
According to Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger, Lunar Lake, scheduled to be launched in direction of the tip of this yr, is ready to lift the bar even additional concerning on-chip AI capabilities and efficiency. At Intel’s personal Vision occasion, aptly named Intel Vision, present CEO of Intel Pat Gelsinger said throughout his presentation that Lunar Lake would be the ‘flagship SoC’ for the subsequent era of AI PCs. Intel claims that Lunar Lake may have 3X the AI efficiency of their present Meteor Lake SoC, which is spectacular as Meteor Lake is estimated to be working round 34 TOPS mixed with the NPU, GPU, and CPU.
Factoring within the NPU inside Meteor Lake, 11 of the 34 TOPS come solely from the NPU. Still, Intel claims that the NPU on Lunar Lake will hit a big 45 TOPs, akin to the Hailo-10 add-in card and much like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processor. Factoring within the built-in graphics and the compute cores, Intel is claiming a mixed whole of over 100 TOPS, and with Microsoft’s self-imposed pointers of what constitutes an ‘AI PC’ coming in at 40 TOPS, Intel’s NPU suits the invoice.
Intel additionally alludes to how they’re gaining a load of TOPS efficiency from the NPU, whether or not that be with new applied sciences; the NPU will possible be inbuilt a extra superior node, maybe Intel 18A. Another factor Intel did not spotlight was how they had been measuring the TOPS efficiency, whether or not that be INT8 or INT4.
Still, one factor is evident: Intel needs to extend on-chip AI capabilities in desktop PCs and notebooks with every era. Intel can also be trying to leverage extra AI efficiency to assist enhance its aim to ship 100 million AI PCs by the tip of 2025. Intel has already introduced that it is shipped 5 million up to now and plans to promote one other 40 million models by the tip of the yr.
