Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptops have had a summer of their own, but the summer is coming to an end. AMD is currently shipping its Ryzen AI chips, and Intel just announced that it will “launch” its next-generation Core Ultra laptop chips, codenamed Lunar Lake, during a live broadcast on September 3. It doesn’t sound like they’ll be available that soon, but the full release should only be five weeks away.
As we’ve discussed, Lunar Lake is a radically reinvented chip that throws away the whole idea of plugging a pluggable memory stick into a laptop, not to mention some of Intel’s previous work on how to achieve optimal battery life and performance Idea – add triple the NPU if you happen to have a generative AI application you want to run locally.
But more importantly, it’s Intel’s laptop answer to Qualcomm and Apple’s Arm-based chips, which offer longer battery life than we typically see from Intel-produced x86 chips. We’re all waiting to see if Intel can deliver a compelling combination of performance, battery life, and features to keep it in the game as Windows on Arm finally becomes a viable challenger.
We’re currently testing the first batch of AMD Ryzen AI 9 laptops to see if “Strix Point” will be a promising machine in this new climate, and Lunar Lake will be the final piece of the puzzle in this fall’s chip wars.
But as usual with chipmakers, you don’t necessarily expect “launch” to mean that Lunar Lake laptops will be available for purchase that day. (Intel spokesman Thomas Hannaford said the mood is for “more details on event availability.”)
For now, all Intel has confirmed is that it “will reveal details about the new processor’s breakthrough x86 energy efficiency, superior core performance, giant leap in graphics performance, and unparalleled artificial intelligence computing power that will drive this and future generations of Intel products.” development of.
