Intel's Lunar Lake will be a specialized low-power PC chip

Intel executives disclosed that 2024's Lunar Lake chip will be optimized for ultraportables for 15 watts and below, while reiterating that 2023's Meteor Lake chip is still on track. And if you haven't guessed it already, the future of Intel's processors continues to be "disaggregated" designs that will include various application-specific tiles all working in concert. All this is scheduled to be talked about at this week's Hot Chips conference, an academic conference where, typically, existing products are dissected by their designers. Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger will deliver a keynote titled "Semiconductors Run the World," which will talk about how semiconductors are becoming more specialized through the integration of various functions. A number of big-name chip companies, including AMD, Arm, Mediatek, Nvidia, and Samsung will join Tesla and smaller startups to talk about their own advances.