The Moon Lake has finally landed. The successor to Intel's Meteor Lake series of chips, which is the new flagship SoC (System on A Chip) to power the entire range of next-generation AI PCs and AI laptops

We've known about its existence for some time, but this week's Computex2024 event was the first time Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger had announced the launch of Lunar Lake. This is where chips was officially announced. The latest Silicon represents a major upgrade on Meteor Lake, which I will soon get. Now here we tell you that these new chips will be installed on more than 80 machines across 20 different OEMs currently scheduled to launch by the end of the year. 

The x86 architecture of Lunar Lake and the significant increase in the maximum number (1 trillion operations per 1 second) compared to last year's Meteor range looks like a true generational leap. Part of the reason Intel's previous processors couldn't cut the AI mustard pretty much in the computing space was that the early units had only 11.5 tops, which is short enough of the minimum 40 top counts Microsoft set for Copilot+ Pcs. Thankfully, Lunar Lake offers up to 48 tops, which is equivalent to 3x of Meteor's performance thanks to Lunar having increased the amount of NPU hardware by 4x. 

And when it comes to Lunar Lake graphics, the integrated Xe2GPU looks like it will blow Meteor out of the water, but the performance is up 1.5x, with 67

mostly when it comes to more specific GPU features that will excite game enthusiasts to Lunar, the 8 enhanced ray—tracing units will be available. And we're excited about the presence of an enhanced XeSS kernel - Intel is adopting Nvidia's DLSS supersampling. In real-world gaming terms, this should allow you to play things like the graphically intensive Cyberpunk2077 on a compatible AI machine with a high frame rate without turning off the harsh RT feature.

Is it worth highlighting the other Lunar Lake notes that came out of Intel's Computex briefing? Both Bluetooth and WI-FI7 are included in the chip, and Intel claims that the Lunar Lake laptop will take 55% less time to wake up in wireless mode, but the chip's on-board memory design means it's almost inevitable that compatible motherboards will be smaller in size in the future. .

Lunar Lake is clearly a very exciting, game-changing silicon, and as mentioned earlier, 20 different AI laptops from 80 major manufacturers will have to ship before the end of 2024. 

One major player skipping the Moon Lake party for the time being? It's Microsoft, and the iconic Redmond-based giant will instead choose Qualcomm processors on future Surface laptops.