Intel Reveals Lunar Lake Processor Chips, Arriving Later This Year

Intel has pulled the curtain back on its new client processors, now codenamed Lunar Lake. The new processor chips will power over 80 newly designed laps across 20 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Intel’s Lunar Lake chips will be at the core of many devices supporting Microsoft’s newly announced Copilot+PCs. By default, Lunar Lake-powered devices will be able to offer Microsoft’s Recall feature when available. Surpassing the minimum benchmarks of requirements for Copilot+ neural processing units (NPUs), Lunar Lake offers 48 trillion operations per second (TOPS). In comparison, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X-series chips deliver 45 TOPS.

Lunar Lake’s NPU is a significant upgrade from what’s available on Metero Lake. In an already impressive step up from Meteor Lake’s 10 TOPS, Lunar Lake also offers Xe2 graphics, offering up to 80 percent faster gaming performance. At launch, Lunar Lake will be available in both 16GB and 32GB options.

Lunar Lake will also include four performance cores and four efficiency cores. With no included Hyper-Threading, Intel is relying on Lunar Lake’s eight cores. As a result, it believes Lunar Lake provides efficiency of up to 40 percent lower power when compared to Meteor Lake.

The company sees a growing market in which AI-powered PCs are only going to be more widely adopted over time. Intel states AI PCs are projected to make up almost 80% of new PCs by 2027. Thus the company has been working to create more improved hardware and software platforms for the AI PCs. 100 independent software vendors (ISVs) and 300 features are all a part of this initiative. Intel also supports 500 AI models across its Core Ultra platform.

Intel states that Lunar Lake-powered machines will begin arriving later this year around the holiday season. The company clearly has its eye set to take on the likes of Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X chips.