Lunar Lake

Lunar Lake is the codename for Core Ultra 200V Series mobile processors designed by Intel, released in September 2024.

Lunar Lake's focus on increased power efficiency targets premium ultra-thin laptops and compact mobile designs.

[4] Lunar Lake is the first processor design by Intel where all logic dies are entirely fabricated on external nodes outsourced to TSMC.

[5] In March 2024, Intel's chief financial officer admitted during an investment call that the company was "a little bit heavier than we want to be in terms of external wafer manufacturing versus internal".

It has expanded functions over Meteor Lake's compute tile which solely housed CPU cores and cache.

SMT, or Intel's marketing term HyperThreading, allows a single physical CPU core with 2 threads to execute two tasks simultaneously.

Lunar Lake's 48 dedicated NPU TOPS meets Microsoft's requirements for laptops in order to be certified as Copilot+ PCs.

The Battlemage architecture launched in Lunar Lake mobile processors before discrete Arc desktop graphics cards.

This change has been attributed to the power efficiency gains from the compute tile moving from the Intel 4 process to TSMC's more advanced N3B node.

Intel claims that Lunar Lake's on-package memory achieved a reduction of 40% in power consumption and "up to 250 square millimeters" of space.

Less complex cooling being required means that Lunar Lake processors can more easily fit in ultra-low power compact mobile solutions.

The downside of Lunar Lake's on-package memory is that is not user replaceable or upgradable to higher capacities beyond 32 GB with SO-DIMMs.