We now know that Intel will officially launch its Intel Lunar Lake SoCs on September 3rd at an event to coincide with IFA 2024. Acer will be taking the opportunity to present its first batch of Lunar Lake ‘Core Ultra 200V’ notebooks straight after, on September 4th, at its ‘Next@Acer’ 2024 event. It’s highly likely that the big names in the market will do the same, and the ranges from Asus, HP, MSI and others are expected to follow suit.
For the time being, the Copilot+ PC hype launched by Microsoft is slow to take off. At Overclocking.com, we’ve had the opportunity this summer to ‘live’ with a Copilot+ certified laptop, and we have to be honest… We’re puzzled.
In reality, the promise made by Microsoft for PCs equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X SOC chips is having trouble materialising. The market could really take off with the arrival of other chips like AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 and of course Intel’s Lunar Lake, which have been heralded as ‘promising’ for months…
According to the latest leaks, we can expect no fewer than 9 different versions of these Intel SoCs. These are the Core Ultra 5 226V, Core Ultra 5 228V, Core Ultra 5 236V, Core Ultra 5 238V, Core Ultra 7 256V, Core Ultra 7 258V, Core Ultra 7 266V and Core Ultra 9 228V. You’ll notice that these Intel chips are referred to as SoCs, because they mark a real breakthrough in design from the Blues. Intended primarily for ultrabooks, they incorporate 16GB or 32GB LPDDR5x 8533MHz memory and an Intel Arc A140V graphics solution with 8 Xe2 cores, or Intel Arc A130V with 7 Xe2 cores. This configuration is very similar to what Apple is doing with its M SoCs. Forget about memory upgradability, you’ll have to make the right choice at the time of purchase.
