Intel will bring “Core Ultra” to desktops with an integrated AI NPU inside its next desktop chip, codenamed “Arrow Lake.” Additionally, Intel’s next mobile chip, codenamed “Lunar Lake,” is already being shipped to its PC partners and will hit the market in 2024.
This week, Intel also launched more “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors, an update to its 13th-gen architecture for laptops, as well as eighteen new desktop processors. The Core HX, branded just as Core, is being geared at gaming PCs, while Core Ultra architecture is splitting time in laptops between power-sipping Meteor Lake and Core HX.
Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake will be the first desktop gaming CPU with an AI accelerator. Arrow Lake is expected to offer “leadership in compute, graphics and AI” and will mark a transition to Intel’s “angstrom” architecture, Intel 20A.
As for mobile, Intel is making significant progress in Lunar Lake, with OEM partners already having the first samples. Lunar Lake will bring significant improvements in CPU IPC and more than three times AI performance in both the GPU and the NPU. It will be optimized for thin-and-light PCs, operating at 15 watts and below.
These developments raise questions about the mobile market, including whether Lunar Lake will replace Meteor Lake and how long the 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh desktop chips will hold on before being replaced by the 15th-gen Arrow Lake in 2024.
