Core Ultra 200V “Lunar Lake” arrives next quarter

The first Lion Cove and Skymont-based CPU series coming soon, also the first Xe2 based product.

Intel is sharing new details about its upcoming client architecture, Lunar Lake, aiming to compete with today’s Microsoft’s and Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon X Series and Windows on ARM updates. Intel’s Lunar Lake, designed for “Next Gen AI PCs,” is set for a Q3 2024 release and Intel is already running production wafers.

In addition, Intel announced that Arrow Lake, part of the Core Ultra 200 series targeting both mobile and desktop platforms, is on schedule to launch in Q4 2024. An update on Arrow Lake will be provided at Computex it is revealed.

Lunar Lake, Source: Intel

Intel’s Lunar Lake marketing presentation arrives on the same day as competitor Qualcomm is sharing new details on the Snapdragon X Series. Several new laptop designs from ASUS, Dell, HP, and others featuring the latest Snapdragon CPUs are expected to be unveiled today following the Microsoft AI event.

Intel’s marketing materials are directly comparing their CPUs to Qualcomm’s, highlighting significant performance gains. They claim Lunar Lake will deliver 1.4x higher AI performance in Stable Diffusion 1.5 compared to the Snapdragon X Elite, a 1.5x improvement over Meteor Lake for graphics, and faster core performance than both the AMD Ryzen 7 8840U and Snapdragon X Elite. The Core Ultra 200V series are also expected to deliver 30% and 20% lower package power than Ryzen 7 7840U and Qualcomm 8cx Gen3 in Microsoft Teams Conferencing.

Lunar Lake, Source: Intel

Intel reaffirms that Lunar Lake will feature new core and GPU architectures: Lion Cove (P-Core) and Skymont (E-Core). The chip will include an “Advanced Low Power Island” and a new NPU unit delivering 45 TOPS. Overall, the chip will offer up to 100 TOPS, with the Xe2 GPU contributing 60 TOPS.

Intel Core Ultra 200V series are designed to power lightweight laptops, Mini-PCs and apparently even gaming handhelds . The more capable Arrow Lake series equipped with the same CPU architectures, but with older Xe-LPG (Alchemist) GPU architecture will go into premium laptops, gaming systems and desktops.

Source: Intel