Intel has launched its latest generation of laptop chips, “Lunar Lake,” with the promise of massive performance and battery life gains.
At IFA 2024, Intel has announced “Lunar Lake” for laptop CPUs. These will debut as Intel Core Ultra 200V series releases starting later this month in devices from Lenovo, HP, Samsung, and more. One of the first is the Samsung Galaxy Book 5 series, which was announced alongside Intel’s reveal, and will be available later this month.
What’s new in “Lunar Lake” this year?
Intel’s big focus is on breaking “misconceptions about x86 efficiency.” These new chips are claimed to have the power expected of x86 CPUs, but with power efficiency that rivals that of ARM CPUs such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite. Intel says to expect up to 50% lesser power consumption. Intel claims that laptops using “Lunar Lake” will be able to offer up to 20 hours of battery life.
Meanwhile, on the AI processing front, these new chips are able to deliver up to 120 TOPS of AI processing power – more than double that of Snapdragon X Elite.
The event was led off with a demo of Gemini Nano features on ChromeOS, which was noted to be using the previous generation “Metor Lake” generation of processors. Google already uses Gemini Nano on the Chrome browser for AI features such as “Help me write,” but this new support through Intel’s latest chips should allow for more system-level AI features on Chromebooks. Intel and Google showcased a demo during the event which included “Help me read,” a feature Google first announced in May.
Google showed off an Acer machine which is said to be including “the very latest” Intel Core Ultra chips, possibly referring to this new generation. Currently, there’s no word on when to expect other Chromebooks might ship with “Lunar Lake,” but it could be a bit considering high-end Chromebooks have been slowly fading out.
More on Windows & ChromeOS:
- Google previews upcoming ChromeOS features: Help me read, Focus, and Where was I?
- ‘Google Essentials’ is a new Windows app, coming first to HP
- HP seems to have pulled the plug on high-end Chromebooks, except for its $2,000 one
Update: Post and headline updated to clarify that new AI features on Chromebook work on both “Meteor Lake” and “Lunar Lake.”
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