During the Intel Vision 2024 main keynote, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger showed off the full Lunar Lake chip, as Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group (CCG) Mi Michelle Johnston Holthaus did at CES 2024. The highlight of the comparison between the two Lunar Lake chips is that Pat Gelsinger gave us something more interesting than taking pictures. He clarified and claimed the level of AI performance we can expect to see when Lunar Lake launches.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said Lunar Lake, scheduled to be launched by the end of this year, will further raise the bar for on-chip artificial intelligence capabilities and performance. At Intel’s own Vision event, current Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a speech that Lunar Lake will be the “flagship SoC” for the next generation of AI PCs. Intel claims that Lunar Lake’s AI performance will be 3x that of its current Meteor Lake SoC, which is impressive since Meteor Lake plus NPU, GPU, and CPU is expected to run at around 34 TOPS.
Considering the NPU in Meteor Lake, 11 of the 34 TOPS come entirely from the NPU. Nonetheless, Intel claims the NPU on Lunar Lake will reach 45 TOPs, similar to the Hailo-10 add-in card, similar to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors. Taking into account integrated graphics and computing cores, Intel claims a total of more than 100 TOPS, and according to Microsoft’s own “AI PC” composition guidelines, its performance reaches 40 TOPS, Intel’s NPU meets the requirements.
Intel also mentioned how they will get TOPS performance loads from the NPU, whether with new technology; the NPU will likely be built into a more advanced node, perhaps the Intel 18A. Another thing Intel doesn’t emphasize is how they measure TOPS performance, whether it’s INT8 or INT4.
Still, one thing is clear: Intel wants to add on-chip AI capabilities to every generation of desktop and laptop computers. Intel is also trying to leverage more AI performance to help achieve its goal of shipping 100 million AI-powered PCs by the end of 2025. Intel has announced it has shipped 5 million units to date and plans to sell an additional 40 million units by the end of 2025. Year.