Intel will officially ‘launch’ its Lunar Lake laptop chips on September 3rd

Qualcomm’s caller Snapdragon laptops had the summertime each to themselves, but that’s coming to an end. AMD is present shipping its Ryzen AI chips — and Intel has conscionable announced it’ll “launch” its adjacent procreation of Core Ultra laptop chips, codename Lunar Lake, connected a September 3rd livestream. It sounds similar they won’t beryllium disposable rather that soon, but the afloat uncover should beryllium conscionable 5 weeks away.

As we’ve discussed, Lunar Lake is an utterly overhauled spot that ditches the full thought of plugging swappable representation sticks into your laptop, not to notation respective of Intel’s erstwhile ideas astir however to execute the champion artillery beingness and show — positive a tripled NPU if you hap to person generative AI applications you’d similar to tally locally.

But much importantly, it’s Intel’s laptop reply to Qualcomm and Apple’s Arm-based chips, which connection much artillery beingness than we’ve typically seen from x86 chips similar the ones Intel builds. We’re each waiting to spot if Intel tin present a compelling operation of performance, artillery life, and features to support Intel upright as Windows connected Arm yet becomes a viable challenger.

We’re presently investigating 1 of the archetypal AMD Ryzen AI 9 laptops to spot if “Strix Point” makes for a promising instrumentality successful this caller climate, and Lunar Lake volition beryllium the last portion of this year’s chipwar puzzle this fall.

But arsenic accustomed for chipmakers, you shouldn’t needfully expect “launch” to mean that Lunar Lake laptops volition beryllium disposable to acquisition that day. (“More details to travel connected availability astatine the event” is the existent vibe, says Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford.)

For now, all Intel is confirming is that it “will uncover details connected the caller processors’ breakthrough x86 powerfulness efficiency, exceptional halfway performance, monolithic leaps successful graphics show and the unmatched AI computing powerfulness that volition thrust this and aboriginal generations of Intel products.”