Intel reveals new details of its CPU, with a focus on AI processing and power saving

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said Intel's goal is to develop processors that deliver good performance. And power savings cover both the data center and the PCs everyone uses, Intel is ready to support the open ecosystem. This will help accelerate AI development opportunities for both customer and alliance groups to be able to rely on CPU, GPU and NPU performance to help process AI.

To launch Intel Lunar Lake, which is expected to be Intel Core Ultra or AI PC, which will hit the market in the second half of this year. There will be a new chip design that integrates a CPU. Both performance-focused processing cores and core power savings allow for the same processing power as the previous generation. But it uses 40% less energy.

Meanwhile, the NPU 4, an AI processing unit, has also been improved to be 4 times faster than before, helping generative AI work on PCs run at faster instructions per second (48 TOPS).

There's also improved Intel Xe2 graphics that improve image processing performance by 1.5 times compared to the previous generation. There is also a platform that allows each chip to participate in AI processing, with the CPU capable of processing 5 TOPS, the GPU 67 TOPS, and the NPU 48 TOPS.

Initially, products in the AI ​​notebook line using Intel Lunar Lake processors will begin hitting the market with at least 80 models from 20 partners in the third quarter of this year, boosting Microsoft's Copilot+ PC. From a laptop that comes with a discrete graphics card as well

As for the Intel Xeon 6 server processor and Intel Gaudi AI accelerator card, Intel will work with major manufacturers including ASUS, Foxconn, Gigabyte, Inventec Quanta, and Wistron to commercialize them further.