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Intel today held the first of two CES 2024 presentations in Las Vegas and announced that the company's Arrow Lake processors for desktops and Lunar Lake processors for laptops will be available in the second half of 2024. Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel's executive vice president and general manager of the Customer Computing Group, said the company is already in the "sprint and final stages" of two new processors.
Arrow Lake will be an extension of the Intel Core Ultra architecture for high-performance desktops for gaming. Holthaus says it will be the first PC gaming processor with AI capabilities. That's a claim that AMD will certainly dispute, as it launched its own Ryzen chip today with AI acceleration. Intel uses its general Meteor Lake design for laptops and then fits it into the (presumably) socket form factor, which is reminiscent of AMD's current approach to using its laptop APUs for desktops.
Holthaus also announced that Lunar Lake will launch laptops this year. The new chip features a "new low-power architecture and significant IPC improvements" and three times the AI performance of Meteor Lake on GPUs and NPUs. The chips are now being shipped to Intel's partners.
Our execution on this product has been excellent, and I'm happy to say that we've shipped the system to our partners. It's working. It does a great job. And Lunar Lake is really the next level of AI performance for thin and light PCs," Holtahus said.
As you can see in the ** above, Holthause showed the crowd the Moon Lake chip. We can see that this processor has a large chip, which can be made up of multiple block tiles chiplets, as well as two incidental structures that appear to be DRAM on the package. We can find in the Lunar Lake processor what appears to be three square tiles.
This design seems to be very similar to the chip we found in Intle** earlier this year. You can see the **: