Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs are now in mass manufacturing at TSMC employing their superior N3B node, with the 1st laptops expected to surface in Q3 2024. The biggest SOCs of them all are the Intel CPUs, with multi-tile packages featuring very high-performance on-package LPDDR5x configurations. It would also be the first time that Intel CPUs are entirely made by TSMC.
More About Intel Lunar Lake CPU Production
Intel indicated it will begin returning to normal shipment levels of the works-on-arrival CPUs to its customers during the second half of the year as planned in advance. The Lunar Lake Series would arrive lately in Q3 followed by the Arrow Lake series in Q4. Top of the list is the introduction of TSMC Compute Tile which happens to be the first implementation of TSMC’s freshly production-started custom 3nm process node.
Intel Said to Beat AMD, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm to TSMC’s 3nm Orders: Report Reformatted-DigiTimes. This time around, the CPUs will be built using TSMC’s Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 and 200V process technologies. In Arrow Lake CPUs some specific tiles that Intel has placed for Intel 20A will now be using TSMC’s 3nm N3B.Node. The iGPU tile for Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake is also going to be fabbed at TSMC.
Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake both use the same compute tiles built with Lion Cove P-Cores and Skymont E-Cores outside of XeSD, respectively. The differences will come down to the iGPU and I/O/SOC tiles, which means a different core and technology used, for both the Arrow Lake we have the Alchemist & Alchemist+ Xe/Xe+ architectures, and for the Lunar Lake chips, we would have Xe2 GPUs.
Lunar Lake CPUs are slated to launch with the first laptops arriving in Q3 2024, marking Intel’s initial Microsoft Copilot+ compliant devices. However, Copilot+ features will be enabled through an update post-launch, differing from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X platform which ships with these features pre-enabled. Arrow Lake CPUs will debut in the desktop segment initially, with reports suggesting an October release, while high-end and mainstream laptop models are expected to follow in early 2025.
FAQs
What is Intel Lunar Lake?
Intel Lunar Lake is Intel’s upcoming generation of CPUs built on TSMC’s N3B process node. It features advanced SOC technology with on-package LPDDR5x memory and multiple compute tiles.
When are laptops with Intel Lunar Lake CPUs launching?
Laptops with Intel Lunar Lake CPUs are slated for release in Q3 2024. These devices will support Microsoft Copilot+ features post-launch via a software update.
