Demos of Intel ‘Lunar Lake’ processor awaiting next two generations – Intel

The surprise is that “Lunar Lake” processors are not scheduled to be released before 2025 (at least), and not only “Meteor Lake” processors will succeed, but also the successor processors, “Arrow Lake” processors, will succeed. The latter is expected to make its debut on the market in the second half of 2024 or early 2025.

As for “Meteor Lake”, it will be released at the end of the year, this year, and more specifically on December 14 if all goes well and according to Intel’s planning. What’s also surprising is that through a “Lunar Lake” live demonstration, Intel has demonstrated that the Intel 18A manufacturing method works, although we don’t know how efficient the production line is. The computing chip (shown here) for the “Lunar Lake” processor will be built using the Intel 18A process, which predates today’s Intel 7 by four generations, which will be replaced by the Intel 4 (Meteor Lake), Intel 3, and Intel 20A.

The demo focused on the productive or creative AI capabilities of the company’s third-generation NPU, which is essentially the “hardware backend” for Intel AI Boost technology. In the demo, Intel used a local session of a tool similar to Stable Diffusion, where the processor proceeded to create an image of a giraffe wearing a hat while another GPT-powered program wrote the lyrics to a Taylor Swift song from scratch. Both tasks were completed on-stage using the processor’s on-board Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and in less time than typically expected from discrete AI accelerators or cloud-based services.