Acer will unveil the first laptops with Intel Lunar Lake processors on September 4.
Wccftech saw Acer’s unveiling on YouTube from an invite to watch the livestream of its IFA 2024 keynote (the “Next@Acer” 2024 event). Notably, this comes the day after Intel debuted its Lunar Lake CPU lineup – which will be known as the Core Ultra 200V family – in a livestream of its own on September 3.
It is therefore completely logical that we can expect Acer’s big IFA presentation to feature laptops with Lunar Lake chips: the next generation of mobile CPUs that are intended to succeed Intel Meteor Lake.
AI functionality is expected to play a major role at Acer’s event, which carries the tagline “Human Intelligence.” That could refer to the rapid advancement of AI laptops, or the fact that new features are making them more useful to humans.
As we discussed earlier, Lunar Lake could be a great engine for thin and light laptops as it focuses on power efficiency and provides the necessary resources for AI acceleration.
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Of course, a focus on AI is to be expected, as these laptops with Lunar Lake mobile processors will be Acer’s first Copilot+ PCs to feature Intel silicon. These won’t be the only notebooks with Lunar Lake, to be sure, and all the other major manufacturers will be showing off their own designs at IFA 2024 – you can bet on that.
These Intel laptops will be competing with existing Copilot+ PCs, which started with Snapdragon X (ARM-powered) laptops and recently moved to AMD’s mobile chips (Ryzen AI 300). What these, and Lunar Lake, all have in common is that they have an NPU powerful enough to qualify as a Copilot+ PC (meaning an NPU that exceeds 40 TOPS – in other words, one that offers decent acceleration for AI workloads).
While laptops running Lunar Lake are expected to debut this year, they won’t go on sale until later in 2024 – this will merely be an initial reveal, with devices featuring the silicon inside. In fact, rumor has it that we won’t see many notebooks with Core Ultra 200V processors until early 2025, when volume production for Lunar Lake really ramps up.