Update
Well, this is a summary of Intel's keynote speech. Now that Lunar Lake is official, I'll have a lot more to say about it this week, but for now, I'll head to the show floor. Take care friends.
Are we talking about more than just the silicon that powers a computer?
Until the periodic table runs out, Moore's Law will be alive and well. Ok, that is a very interesting statement.
New Lunar Lake laptops are coming, but there's no release date yet. All the folks at Intel have told me is that we can expect these laptops to hit the market in time for Holiday 2024, so probably after Labor Day in September 2024.
The Acer CEO is now on stage with Gelsinger. The step from Search to Ask. Good way to summarize what the industry wants for AI.
Arrow Lake will arrive on desktop in late 2024, Panther Lake will arrive in 2025.
The Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips are potentially revolutionary, but the entire computing world has been built around Intel's x86 chips for decades. The entire ecosystem defaults to x86, so you can't compare Arm's support to what's already included in Intel's Lunar Lake pie.
I will have a lot to say about the power efficiency of the SoC. I haven't been able to test any of this, but I spoke to a lot of people at Intel last week about Lunar Lake, and if the architectural changes Intel has made work as intended, we may get x86 performance with Arm-competitive power efficiency . This chip has been completely redesigned, so many of the issues that devastated battery life from Alder Lake to Raptor Lake Refresh have been ruled out.
Lion Cove performance cores, Skymont efficiency cores, Xe 2 (aka Battlemage) architecture, and new NPU cores. Why he calls it 'zhee-two' I don't understand. Everyone at Intel has called it “echs-ee-two,” but when you're the CEO, you can do whatever you want.
Intel Lunar Lake is official.
Intel Lunar Lake PC on display.
Well, here we go, now talking about AI PCs.
Intel and Samsung bring AI to edge devices.
UALink, the high-speed open interface standard for data centers that AMD's Dr. Lisa Su talked about yesterday, includes Intel, but notably does not include Nvidia.
I have to admit, I'm glad they're removing the data center stuff first. It's interesting how AMD ended the data center and brought forward the announcements of its Ryzen client.
Inventec President Jack Tsai joins Gelsinger on stage.
RAG LLM multimodal analysis of an x-ray can help medical professionals interpret the results for diagnosis. Okay, so the “accidental” reveal of this chatbot is a clever introduction. I've already seen Gelsinger give some keynotes and honestly, he's better at this than anyone else in the industry. The content may not be the most fascinating to most people, but he is an excellent presenter.
Like yesterday at AMD's keynote, I appreciate your focus on energy efficiency. There is always the problem of induced demand, so these more efficient chips may mean we use three times as much, so we end up wasting the same amount of energy (in the same way that adding more lanes to a highway doesn't help traffic , as it simply encourages more drivers to drive instead of using public transportation).
The difference between these two server racks is substantial when it comes to video. 4.2x performance boost on Xeon 6. It's time to upgrade data centers with these older Intel Xeon chips. I agree. Energy savings of 80,000 MWh with an upgrade to the new Xeon 6 chips. I guess Intel read my opinion.
LOL, a deep dive into the guy's exercise routine. I mean, friend is in shape, so I guess he earned it.
That's really good. Yes, move everything to e-cores please. I'm glad the focus here is on efficiency.
Hey, Intel Xeon 6 with electronic cores.
Okay, data center talk aside. 130 million Xeon chips power the data centers.
Shout out to Netscape.
French fries are the heart of the global economy. It may not be a great idea for almost all of them to be produced in one country.
The age of AI is here, says Gelsinger, comparing it to the early days of the Internet. He is almost certainly right.
So that video of Intel founder Gordon Moore was generated by AI, with permission from Moore's family. Which is fine, but I have to admit that I don't like the idea of ”resurrecting” the dead this way.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is about to take the stage.
So we will start with the performance of the Ten Drum percussion group.
We will be about to leave in about 4 minutes. Now is a good time to grab a drink and a snack and settle in if you haven't already.
Hey people! This is TechRadar Components Editor John, and we're about to get started with Intel's keynote from Taipei, Taiwan. Expect plenty of AI PC talks from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and much more.
