As part of Intel’s Development 2023 conference, the business is not just displaying their present and soon-to-be-current items like Meteor Lake, however the positive keynote by CEO Pat Gelsinger was likewise utilized to display future generations of Intel items. Maybe the most significant surprise this year being Intel’s Lunar Lake platform, which is currently up and running to the point where Intel can do demonstrations on it.
Lunar Lake is Intel’s 2025 customer platform, which is arranged to get here after Meteor Lake (extremely late 2023) and Arrow Lake (2024 ). At last disclosure from Intel, it is going to be a new platform, changing the shared Meteor/Arrow platform. At this moment, verified information are rare, aside from that it will be larger and much better than Meteor Lake.
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.(* )Intel Customer Processor Roadmap
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In any case, as part of this year’s Development keynote, Gelsinger & co ran a set of AI demonstrations on their Lunar Lake test box. The very first was Riffusion, an AI music generation plugin for Audacity that can create music based upon the design of another artist. The 2nd demonstration was the now timeless Steady Diffusion text-to-image generation design. Both demonstrations had the ability to take advantage of the chip’s NPU, which is a brand-new processing block for Intel customer chips beginning with the approaching Meteor Lake.
And while the demonstration was quick, it served its function: to reveal that Lunar Lake was back from the fab, and was currently in sufficient shape not simply to boot and OS, however to flaunt regulated demonstrations. Intel has actually made it clear over the previous couple of years that they plan to move quick to offset wasted time and regain management of the customer market (both in regards to architecture and fabs), so they aspire to flaunt their development here.
Maybe the most fascinating aspect of the demonstration was what wasn’t stated, nevertheless: the procedure node utilized for Lunar Lake’s calculate (CPU) tile. In Intel’s earliest (and still latest) public roadmap, Lunar Lake was noted to be developed on the Intel 18A procedure. Nevertheless, other disclosures from Intel today show that they’re just going to be beginning danger production of 18A silicon in Q1′ 2024. Which suggests that for Lunar Lake to be working today, it can’t be on 18A.
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Old Intel Customer Roadmap, Circa 2022
That leaves 20A as without a doubt the most likely option, which is due earlier and is currently ending up working wafers. Which suggests that Intel is intending on utilizing 20A over 2 generations of customer processors: Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake. We’re still waiting on verification of this, obviously, however all indications presently indicate Lunar Lake having actually moved to 20A because Intel’s previous upgrade.
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