Intel announces Lunar Lake architecture for ‘thin and light’ PCs

At Computex 2024, Intel has revealed details of its Lunar Lake architecture for AI PC processors. It has been designed for power efficiency compute performance in ‘thin and light’ PC models.

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The processors include Performance-cores (P-cores) and Efficient-cores (E-cores) for energy efficiency and AI compute performance. They also have a fourth generation neural processing unit with up to 48TOPs of AI performance which is an four-fold improvement on the earlier generation.

The new GPU design, code-named Battlemage, combines the graphics core, X₂2 and the X_e Matrix Extension (XMX) arrays for AI. the X_e2 increases gaming performance and AI throughput compared with the previous generation and delivers over 60TOPS. There is also a new microarchitecture for the display and media engines.
The Platform Controller tile integrates security and connectivity with built-in security engines. The connectivity has been upgraded to integrate Wi-Fi 7.0, Bluetooth 5.4, PCIe Gen5 and PCIe Gen4 ports and Thunderbolt4 ports.
Intel has confirmed that it is already shipping at scale and that Lunar Lake is set to power more than 80 different AI PC designs form 20 OEMs and expects to deploy over 40m Core Ultra processors this year.