Intel's next-gen Lunar Lake CPUs for laptops will majorly up the AI ante with 100-plus TOPS of AI processing power. So said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger
The rest come from the CPU and GPU components. Intel doesn't break that split down, but the vast majority will come from Lunar Lake's GPU. General-purpose CPU cores are not the best at generating lots of AI TOPS. The NPU in Intel's current Meteor Lake chips can only manage 11 TOPS, which means no current Intel laptop qualifies as an AI laptop. For what it's worth, the same applies to AMD's laptop chips.for Windows laptops has a 45 TOPS NPU. So it will qualify as an AI PC right out of the gate when the first systems go on sale in June.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
So, let's just say the fact both Lunar Lake and Snapdragon X Elite's NPU TOPS perfectly match Microsoft's definition probably isn't a coincidence. In the meantime, it's arguably Intel's desktop CPUs that are in much more acute need of an overhaul, what with Intel only managing to refresh its existing Raptor Lake CPUs last time around, which in turn are only really a mild refresh of Allder Lake from 2021.