Intel details Lunar Lake – its radical new laptop processor

Intel shared details about its upcoming Lunar Lake processor, which will power laptops by the end of 2024. Lunar Lake is a major overhaul that comes right after Intel’s Core Ultra (Meteor Lake), which the company called its biggest architectural shift in 40 years.

Lunar Lake is a new system-on-chip design that promises 14% faster CPU performance at the same clock speed, a 50% bump in graphics performance, and up to 60% better battery life than Meteor Lake.

Lunar Lake is built not on an Intel process (because Intel is working on its 1.8nm EUV 18A node), but on TSMC’s 3nm node – N3…