[News] Intel CEO Gelsinger Unveils Lunar Lake Processors, Giving Credit to TSMC

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote speech at COMPUTEX Taipei earlier today, unveiling the next-generation client architecture set to launch this year. According to a report from CNA, He expressed gratitude to TSMC for collaborating on the development of the Lunar Lake processors, intended for the next generation of AI PCs. Currently, there are over 80 designs from 20 manufacturers.

Previously on the IFS Direct Connect event in San Jose, USA, Gelsinger pointed out in an interview that two generations of CPU Tiles would be manufactured using TSMC’s N3B process,  marking the official arrival of Intel CPU orders for laptop platforms.

Gelsinger’s interview confirms that Intel has indeed expanded its outsourcing orders to TSMC. Currently, TSMC is responsible for producing Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs tiles for the Arrow and Lunar Lake platforms.

As per CNA’s report, Gelsinger announced the launch of the Xeon 6 platform and processor family designed to meet the demands of data centers, as well as the Gaudi AI accelerator. He also unveiled details of the Lunar Lake processor architecture.

As the flagship processor for the next generation of AI PCs, Lunar Lake significantly enhances graphics and AI processing, reducing system-on-chip power consumption by 40% and providing over three times the AI computing capability. Lunar Lake processors are expected to start shipping in the third quarter of this year.

Additionally, Intel plans to ship over 40 million Core Ultra processors this year, further solidifying its position in the AI PC field.

Gelsinger remarked that having 100,000 transistors on a chip would be remarkable in the early days, but now there are already 1 billion transistors on a chip, with the potential to reach even 1 trillion in the future.

Contrary to what NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently described in his speech, Gelsinger indicated further that Moore’s Law is alive and well, and Taiwan continues to play a core role.

According to Gelsinger, Intel has been operating in Taiwan since 1985 and will enter its 40th year of operation next year. The partnership between Intel and Taiwan spans 39 years, and the combined initials of Intel (I) and Taiwan (T) stand for information technology (IT). Together, Intel and its Taiwanese partners can change the world once again.

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