Lunar Lake

Intel is offering deeper insights into the Lunar Lake architecture at Computex 2024. Lunar Lake will be a tiled 3D packaged design for laptops with a focus on per-per-Watt and AI performance. Lunar Lake marks the arrival of Lion Cove and Skymont cores, Xe2-LPG Battlemage iGPU, and a 47 TOPS NPU along with a host of other platform enhancements.

According to new reports, MSI has turned its attention to a second-generation Claw gaming handheld, less than six months after releasing its inaugural model. Allegedly arriving as the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus, the device will sport a larger display and Intel Lunar Lake processors, among other changes from the current MSI Claw A1M.

Intel’s Lunar Lake CPU architecture seems like the efficiency champ that fans have been waiting for as Meteor Lake didn't quite live up to the expectations. According to a new leak, in addition to efficiency, Lunar Lake is also bringing much more powerful Skymont E-cores.

Details about Weibu's GP10 handheld console powered by an unspecified Intel Lunar Lake processor were leaked on the official Computex site. Looks like we could see an early preview of the upcoming Core Ultra 200V CPUs at Computex this June, although these chips will likely launch this fall.

An Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V APU inside an HP Spectre x360 convertible laptop has been benchmarked at the SiSoftware Sandra database. The result shows the upcoming Battlemage-based Xe2-LPG iGPU in a very positive light as it is not only faster but also appears to use less power than competing Meteor Lake offerings.

Samsung is apparently already running tests with the Galaxy Book5 Pro based on Intel Lunar Lake, as a variant with a next-generation Intel processor and its brand-new iGPU based on the Xe2 architecture has been spotted in a benchmark database.

Intel Lunar Lake CPUs are expected to drop sometime in Q4 of this year packing the next iteration of the tile-based design first introduced with Meteor Lake chips. Per the latest Lunar Lake performance leak, the LNL processors could perform a whopping 50% better in multi-threaded workloads vs the MTL-U chips at 17 W base power.

Intel’s Lunar Lake (LNL) CPUs are the successor to Meteor Lake chips that are expected to serve efficiency-focused mobile designs. Reported to launch sometime in Q4 this year, Windows Task Manager profile of an A1 LNL sample has now leaked confirming specs like core count and cache sizes.

Next gen Lunar Lake mobile chips with Xe2-LPG graphics will support a new adaptive sharpening filter that can be utilized in gaming as well as non-gaming instances like photos, image viewing and video streaming.

Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake MX processors will come in Core 5 and Core 7 flavors with 4 P-cores and 4 E-cores and up to 8 Xe2-LPG Battlemage graphics cores that can almost match Apple's M2 iGPU performance. The entry-level 8 W SKU will not require active cooling.

Panther Lake is expected to enter production in Q1 2024, and Lunar Lake will most likely launch in Q4 2024 as the successor of Meteor Lake, while Arrow Lake will bring the Core Ultra series to desktops with the new LGA-1851 socket. Future models coming after Meteor Lake should also integrate Intel's own take on 3D-stacked cache to better compete with AMD's X3D processors that currently reign supreme when it comes to gaming.

The Intel Lunar Lake CPUs which are said to debut sometime in 2024/H1 2025 will follow in the footsteps of the Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake chips and pack discreet CPU, GPU, and SoC tiles. Now, new leaks allege that the LNL’s GPU tile features Intel’s next-gen Battlemage graphics with Xe2 cores.

Lunar Lake is being developed in close collaboration with OS makers and laptop OEMs to power thin and light devices featuring all-day battery life and uncompromised 15 W TDP performance.

Intel detailed a few tidbits about its upcoming Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake offerings at Hot Chips 34. The company also showed the architecture of a 6P+8E Meteor Lake part with separate CPU, GPU, I/O, and SoC tiles all packaged together using Foveros 3D packaging technology. Intel Graphics Compiler patches also suggest that Meteor Lake's tGPU may support hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

Intel has published its first CPU roadmap in years, having recently presented Alder Lake-P processors. Apparently, we can expect Intel to deliver four new architectures between now and 2025, starting with Raptor Lake, which has 24 cores and 32 threads.

The latest roadmap is quite in line with the one leaked by Moore's Law Is Dead a few months ago, but also expands the timeline to 2025 and adds a couple of new families, complete with core cluster names, estimated release dates and performance comparisons to future AMD and Apple models.