Lunar Lake may be a 15W chip, meaning we could see three mobile architectures from Intel this year.
Intel couldn’t sign off of its Core HX launch without a “one more thing” moment. “Arrow Lake” is Intel’s next desktop chip and it’ll bring the “Core Ultra” brand to desktops with an integrated AI NPU inside. And here’s another thing. Intel’s next mobile chip will be “Lunar Lake” and it’s already shipping that chip to its PC partners. This will all shake down in 2024.
This week, Intel launched more “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors, an update to its 13th-gen architecture for laptops, with the Core HX, as well as eighteen new desktop processors. It’s an interesting moment, which is splitting time in laptops between the power-sipping Meteor Lake (Core Ultra) architecture and the Core HX, branded just as Core. Core HX is, not surprisingly, being geared at gaming PCs, the same as Arrow Lake.
“We’re going to be extending the Core Ultra architecture to high performance gaming systems with our upcoming Arrow Lake,” Holthaus said. “The product is the first desktop gaming CPU with an AI accelerator.”
We don’t know too much about Arrow Lake, though it will supposedly offer “leadership in compute, graphics and AI,” according to a 2022 roadmap presentation Intel made. That will mark a transition to Intel’s “angstrom” architecture, Intel 20A.
