Intel Computex 2024 keynote: Intel CEO explains its AI PC plans for the year

Okay, that wraps up Intel’s keynote. Now that Lunar Lake is official, I’ll have a lot more to say about it this week, but for now I’m heading to the show floor. Be careful people.

Are we talking about something other than silicon powering a computer?

Until the periodic table is exhausted, Moore’s law is alive and well. Okay, that’s a very interesting statement.

New Lunar Lake laptops are coming, but there is no release date yet. All Intel has told me is that we can expect these laptops to hit the market in time for the 2024 holidays, so probably after Labor Day in September 2024.

The CEO of Acer is now on stage with Gelsinger. The transition from searching to asking questions. Nice way to summarize what the industry wants for AI.

Arrow Lake will come to desktops at the end of 2024, Panther Lake will come in 2025.

Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips are potential game changers, but the entire computing world has been built around Intel’s x86 chips for decades. The entire ecosystem uses x86 as the standard, so Arm’s compatibility doesn’t compare to what’s already baked into the pie for Intel’s Lunar Lake.

I will have a lot to say about the power efficiency of the SoC. I haven’t been able to test any of it, but I talked to a lot of Intel folks last week about Lunar Lake, and if the architecture changes Intel made as intended, we could get x86 performance with Arm-competing power efficiency. This chip has been completely redesigned, so many of the issues that destroyed battery life, from Alder Lake to Raptor Lake Refresh, have been jettisoned.

Lion Cove performance cores, Skymont efficiency cores, Xe 2 (AKA Battlemage) architecture and new NPU cores. Why he calls it ‘zhee-two’ is beyond me. Everyone at Intel calls it “echs-ee-two,” but when you’re CEO, you can do whatever you want.

Intel Lunar Lake is official.

Intel Lunar Lake PCs on display.

Okay, here we go, we’re talking about AI PCs now.

Intel and Samsung bring AI to edge devices.

UALink, the fast open interface standard for data centers where Dr. AMD’s Lisa Su talked about it yesterday includes Intel, but Nvidia is noticeably not included.

I have to admit, I’m glad they’re getting the data center stuff out of the way first. Interesting how AMD ended up at the data center and front-loaded its customer’s Ryzen announcements.

Inventec President Jack Tsai joins Gelsinger on stage.

Multimodal RAG LLM that analyzes an x-ray can help medical professionals interpret the results for diagnoses. Okay, so the ‘accidental’ reveal of this chatbot is a clever bit of presentation. I’ve seen Gelsinger do a few keynotes now, and honestly, he’s better at this than anyone in the industry. The content may not be the most engaging for most people, but he is an excellent presenter.

Just like I was at AMD’s keynote yesterday, I appreciate their focus on energy efficiency. There’s always the problem of induced demand, so these more efficient chips could end up using three times as many, so we end up using the same amount of power (in the same way that adding more lanes to a highway slows down traffic is not beneficial, as it only encourages more drivers to drive instead of taking public transport).

The difference between these two server racks is substantial when it comes to video. 4.2x performance gain on Xeon 6. Time to upgrade data centers from these older Intel Xeon chips. I agree with that. Energy savings of 80,000 MWh with an upgrade to new Xeon 6 chips. I think Intel read my opinion.

LOL, a peek into the man’s workout routine. I mean, dude is in form, so I think he deserved it.

That’s actually very good. Yes, move everything to e-cores please. I’m glad the emphasis here is on efficiency.

Huh, Intel Xeon 6 with e-cores.

Okay, to get the data center talk out of the way. 130 million Xeon chips power data centers.

Shout out to Netscape.

Potato chips Are the heart of the world economy. It might not be such a good idea to have almost all of them produced in one country.

The AI ​​era has arrived, Gelsinger says, comparing it to the early days of the internet. He’s almost certainly right.

So that video of Intel founder Gordon Moore was generated by AI, with permission from Moore’s family. That’s fine, but I have to admit that I don’t like the idea of ​​”raising” the dead in this way.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is about to take the stage.

The kick-off will be given with a performance by percussion group Ten Drum.

We’ll be on our way in about 4 minutes. This is a good time to grab a drink and a snack and relax, if you haven’t already.

Hey people! This is John, Ny Breaking’s components editor, and we’re about to start Intel’s keynote address from Taipei, Taiwan. Expect lots of AI PC talk from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, and much more.