Intel Lunar Lake CPUs could be revolutionary for thin-and-light laptops but good luck buying one when they launch

Date:
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:36:44 +0000

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Were expecting Lunar Lake to land late in 2024, but the trouble is these CPUs may not be in many laptops at all.

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Intels Lunar Lake processors for laptops might be launching later this year (if the rumor mill is right), but dont expect them to be in many notebooks until 2025 rolls around.

This is the latest nugget of gossip from one of the regular hardware leakers out there, namely Golden Pig Upgrade on Weibo (as flagged by Wccftech ).

Golden Pig Upgrade observed that with Lunar Lake mobile CPUs thatll major in being extremely power-efficient, making them ideal for the best
thin-and-light laptops Intel is rushing the silicon to market this year, but it wont hit volume production until 2025.

What this means is that while Lunar Lake CPUs should be in some laptops later in 2024 ( as previously rumored ), it wont be until next year that we see a meaningful amount of these notebooks sitting on shelves.

As Golden Pig Upgrade noted, the launch will be very much like Meteor Lake, which was officially released in December 2023, but wider availability didnt happen until, well, this month. Although even now, Raptor Lake Refresh (and Raptor Lake) chips are still the most commonly seen Intel silicon in new laptops. Analysis: EEP! Once again

With all that digested, its worth bearing in mind that the leaker also said that Lunar Lake will be a bit ahead of Meteor Lake in terms of its EEP (Early Enablement Program) kicking off. Thats the scheme whereby certain laptop makers get access to the limited amount of Lunar Lake CPUs early on, and
those are the portables youll be able to purchase initially.

So, these will arrive in a slightly timelier manner than Meteor Lake, were told take all this as the speculation it is, of course but a larger volume of Lunar Lake laptops will not be around until 2025 rolls into town.

This is a perfectly believable scenario, of course, because as mentioned, thats exactly what just happened with Meteor Lake. And it certainly isnt uncommon for mobile CPUs to trickle out in this way, given that theyre supplied to laptop makers, not directly to consumers like desktop processors.

The upshot is Lunar Lake-powered ultrathin laptops probably wont pitch up in numbers until Arrow Lake notebooks are also around in quantity, in early
2025.

While Lunar Lake is expected to cover thin-and-light premium territory (offering some impressive tricks and benefits ), Arrow Lake will provide
beefy (more power-hungry) silicon (HX and H series) for the likes of the best gaming laptops . However, Arrow Lake will also sport low-power CPUs (U
series) to sit under Lunar Lake, offering options for more affordable laptops
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