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Intel Core Ultra: Unlocking Performance and Productivity

Core Ultra is built on the proven platform of x86 with software compatibility, ensuring that your application can run without any issues. This means you don't need a website to check for compatibility, as one of PC's greatest strengths remains intact.

We're expanding our AI efforts to another operating system, and we're excited to welcome John Solman from Google to share his insights on the latest developments in this space.

Let's take a look at some examples of our new AI-powered features. As you can see, this is a new AI-powered feature that we're introducing later this month, and it's available for public viewing today.

This feature is designed to improve productivity, and I'm personally excited about its potential to simplify tasks like email management. The Intel team sent me a long email to prepare for this event, but using the help me read feature saved me a lot of time.

You'll also see the magic editor in action, which allows for advanced photo editing with AI. Whether it's unblurring old photos or making edits on the fly, this feature is a game-changer.

To give everyone the opportunity to try AI on their PC, Intel has released an open-source project called AI Playground. This is a simpl-to-use Windows app with a user-friendly interface that allows you to get started with just one click. It's free, runs entirely locally, and has all the latest capabilities.

Let's take a look at some examples of what you can do with AI Playground. With stable diffusion, you can generate images from text or even other images. The inference runs almost instantly on the Arc GPU, fully local, no Cloud needed.

We're also excited to announce that pre-orders for Lunar Lake start today, and systems will be available on retail shelves starting September 24th. We have more than 80 unique designs across more than 20 top OEMs, many of which are being sold in over 30 retailers around the world. Only Intel can deliver this scale.

We're excited to share these features with you, and we hope you'll love them on your new Core Ultra laptop.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to Intel's next generation core Ultra Global launch today we're proud to announce our newest core Ultra processor code named lunar Lake lunar lake has significant architectural Innovations cores graphics and AI it's the most power efficient processor we have ever built we V overhauled the entire architecture its design and its construction first the performance core it's wider faster and more scalable than any core we've ever built it's the new foundation for how we think about Core Design moving forward compared to our last PE core it delivers double digigit increases in performance performance per watt and performance per area with Lion Cove lunar Lake delivers the fastest CPU core of any processor in a thin and light laptop let's move on to the second type of core the efficiency core we code named skymont it has 2x the throughput for AI it has a much better and enhanced Branch predictor it's wider and deeper for more throughput and has a massive 68% IPC increase yes 68% now let's move on to Graphics the overall in our graphics processor is just as remarkable lunar lake is the first product to use our new xc2 graphics architecture and xc2 deliver substantial improvements in Energy Efficiency there are eight Graphics cores in lunar Lake the average performance lift of each core about 30% in many games examples cyberpunk Spider-Man hogri Legacy we're seeing performance improvements up to 50% the crowning achievement of xc2 is simple it's the fastest built-in GPU in the industry to prove that we've tested nearly 50 different games and we're faster than our competitors best 16% faster than AMD 68% faster than qualcom and that was actually very difficult to measure because 23 games didn't run on the arm processor gaming is more than just performance our investment in drivers and day Zero game compatibility are a huge part of the experience for our customers now we'd like to show a demonstration of the arc GPU in action running on lunar Lake all systems are running the same game Dota 2 we're going to look at performance and power so first up look at lunar Lake versus DMD on the left both are running about the same frame rates but lunar lake is running at about 30% lower power then if you move to the right hand right hand side you'll see lunar Lake versus Qualcomm and lunar Lake's running about 25% faster but at half the power if we do the math Luna Lake laptop delivers 35% More Energy Efficiency than AMD and over twice that of qualcom at the end of the day however we know performance is King for everyone watching so let's recap we're 30% faster than our prior gen 16% faster than AMD and 68% faster than Qualcomm now let's move on to AI we have 120 total platform tops in lunar Lake and every one of our engines have been increased in their capability the npu is four times bigger the GPU has added AI extensions and we've doubled the AI throughput of the course xc2 has another trick called XC Matrix extensions we call it xmx which delivers up to 67 top just from the GPU the lunar L GPU is the fastest AI accelerator in a mobile processor ever building on the GPU we also have a new npu nearly four times the performance of our prior gen up to 48 tops other mpus have similar specs on paper but we deliver the best performance by doing more with every top because our developers are focused on optimizing their appli a and enabling new workloads versus fixing Legacy compatibility issues now let's talk about power efficiency lunar Lake systems shatter the myth that x86 can't do low power and long battery life lunar lake is the most efficient x86 processor ever the efficiency in lunar lake is far more than cores it's packaging it's the Fabrics it's how we cash and of course process technology compared to our previous generation we slashed s so power 50% when it came to battery life we pulled out all the stops laptops based on lunar Lake can deliver 20 hours of active and productive battery life in fact we measured it this week on a customer system ready to launch and that's 20 hours in a workload that is much more demanding than simply watching a video on a dimmer screen let's finally touch on compatibility before you can even experience performance or power you need your application to just run there's nothing more frustrating than on your app when you load your app it doesn't work core Ultra is built on the proven platform of x86 with software compatibility you don't need a website to check if your favorite Apple run generational compatibility is one of the PC's greatest strength and lunar Lake does not break that trust and in this Spirit we're expanding our AI efforts to another operating system please join me in welcoming John solman from Google thank you John for coming to Berlin hey Jim so rather than me just talk about it theoretically um let me show you some examples so um you can look on the screen behind me but what we what you're seeing there is help me read this is a new AI powered feature we're introducing um actually later this month it's September already right yeah thanks for showing it here first bu yeah it's the first time we're actually showing it publicly so uh we can all applaud and you know this is this is a a this is a kind of core productivity feature that we're focused on um you this is something we all do in our in our real world in fact um if you think about help me read in action the Intel team sent me a long detailed email actually multiple I'm sorry yeah um to help you prepare for this event and like most of you I'm running late I'm a little behind my emails so I didn't have as much time to to read all my emails so I used help me read to figure out what the heck I was supposed to do when and just incredible productivity Sav so I super happy about that um you'll also see uh in the in the GIF behind me here magic editor this is one of my personal favorites where you can quickly make advanced edits to photos with AI uh whether that's unblurring old photos of yourself or friends or in the case that you'll see on the on the slide um I needed to make myself a little bigger in the in the the image so uh took advantage of that so be careful when you look at a slide you never know exactly uh what the picture I know you're a cloud client that's that's how you roll but this is running on device correct and it means it's lightning fast it's local and it's mine and I can work while I'm on the move Intel has great Hardware to AI locally on your PC but it's not always easy for everyone to get started to give everyone the opportunity to try AI on their PC Intel has released an open source project called AI playground built specifically for Intel Core Ultra and arc graphics AI playground is a simpl to use Windows app with a really userfriendly interface you can get started with just one click it's free it runs entirely locally and has all of the latest capab abilities AI playground allows you to select from a rich set of AI models right sized for local execution on your Intel PC so let's check it out with Lee stable diffusion is a gen model that allows you to generate images from text or even other images here Lee is prompting the model with lunar and Lake of course to create these beautiful photos you see right here the inference runs almost instantly on the arc GPU fully local no Cloud needed from here we can switch right to a small language model using what's called retrieval augmented generation or rag rag allows you to directly introduce new skills or knowledge to personalize your AI it's like having a personal chatbot running your data locally on your Intel PC and here we see a great example for developers generating python AI playground is a great example of how we think about AI at Intel it's open accessible and secure it's a great way to get started if this is your first time using AI on a PC and it's also a great way to get a jump start if you're a more advanced user we hope you love it on your new core Ultra laptop so if that wasn't enough I have one more thing to share pre-orders for lunar Lake start today exactly and you can see systems on retail shelf starting September 24th we have more than 80 Unique Designs across more than 20 top oems many of our partners here in the audience being sold in more than 30 retailers around the world only Intel can deliver this scale what you see over here on your right and my left is a device wall of high quality premium systems from all of our top OEM partners and we can't wait for each of you to get your hands on onewelcome to Intel's next generation core Ultra Global launch today we're proud to announce our newest core Ultra processor code named lunar Lake lunar lake has significant architectural Innovations cores graphics and AI it's the most power efficient processor we have ever built we V overhauled the entire architecture its design and its construction first the performance core it's wider faster and more scalable than any core we've ever built it's the new foundation for how we think about Core Design moving forward compared to our last PE core it delivers double digigit increases in performance performance per watt and performance per area with Lion Cove lunar Lake delivers the fastest CPU core of any processor in a thin and light laptop let's move on to the second type of core the efficiency core we code named skymont it has 2x the throughput for AI it has a much better and enhanced Branch predictor it's wider and deeper for more throughput and has a massive 68% IPC increase yes 68% now let's move on to Graphics the overall in our graphics processor is just as remarkable lunar lake is the first product to use our new xc2 graphics architecture and xc2 deliver substantial improvements in Energy Efficiency there are eight Graphics cores in lunar Lake the average performance lift of each core about 30% in many games examples cyberpunk Spider-Man hogri Legacy we're seeing performance improvements up to 50% the crowning achievement of xc2 is simple it's the fastest built-in GPU in the industry to prove that we've tested nearly 50 different games and we're faster than our competitors best 16% faster than AMD 68% faster than qualcom and that was actually very difficult to measure because 23 games didn't run on the arm processor gaming is more than just performance our investment in drivers and day Zero game compatibility are a huge part of the experience for our customers now we'd like to show a demonstration of the arc GPU in action running on lunar Lake all systems are running the same game Dota 2 we're going to look at performance and power so first up look at lunar Lake versus DMD on the left both are running about the same frame rates but lunar lake is running at about 30% lower power then if you move to the right hand right hand side you'll see lunar Lake versus Qualcomm and lunar Lake's running about 25% faster but at half the power if we do the math Luna Lake laptop delivers 35% More Energy Efficiency than AMD and over twice that of qualcom at the end of the day however we know performance is King for everyone watching so let's recap we're 30% faster than our prior gen 16% faster than AMD and 68% faster than Qualcomm now let's move on to AI we have 120 total platform tops in lunar Lake and every one of our engines have been increased in their capability the npu is four times bigger the GPU has added AI extensions and we've doubled the AI throughput of the course xc2 has another trick called XC Matrix extensions we call it xmx which delivers up to 67 top just from the GPU the lunar L GPU is the fastest AI accelerator in a mobile processor ever building on the GPU we also have a new npu nearly four times the performance of our prior gen up to 48 tops other mpus have similar specs on paper but we deliver the best performance by doing more with every top because our developers are focused on optimizing their appli a and enabling new workloads versus fixing Legacy compatibility issues now let's talk about power efficiency lunar Lake systems shatter the myth that x86 can't do low power and long battery life lunar lake is the most efficient x86 processor ever the efficiency in lunar lake is far more than cores it's packaging it's the Fabrics it's how we cash and of course process technology compared to our previous generation we slashed s so power 50% when it came to battery life we pulled out all the stops laptops based on lunar Lake can deliver 20 hours of active and productive battery life in fact we measured it this week on a customer system ready to launch and that's 20 hours in a workload that is much more demanding than simply watching a video on a dimmer screen let's finally touch on compatibility before you can even experience performance or power you need your application to just run there's nothing more frustrating than on your app when you load your app it doesn't work core Ultra is built on the proven platform of x86 with software compatibility you don't need a website to check if your favorite Apple run generational compatibility is one of the PC's greatest strength and lunar Lake does not break that trust and in this Spirit we're expanding our AI efforts to another operating system please join me in welcoming John solman from Google thank you John for coming to Berlin hey Jim so rather than me just talk about it theoretically um let me show you some examples so um you can look on the screen behind me but what we what you're seeing there is help me read this is a new AI powered feature we're introducing um actually later this month it's September already right yeah thanks for showing it here first bu yeah it's the first time we're actually showing it publicly so uh we can all applaud and you know this is this is a a this is a kind of core productivity feature that we're focused on um you this is something we all do in our in our real world in fact um if you think about help me read in action the Intel team sent me a long detailed email actually multiple I'm sorry yeah um to help you prepare for this event and like most of you I'm running late I'm a little behind my emails so I didn't have as much time to to read all my emails so I used help me read to figure out what the heck I was supposed to do when and just incredible productivity Sav so I super happy about that um you'll also see uh in the in the GIF behind me here magic editor this is one of my personal favorites where you can quickly make advanced edits to photos with AI uh whether that's unblurring old photos of yourself or friends or in the case that you'll see on the on the slide um I needed to make myself a little bigger in the in the the image so uh took advantage of that so be careful when you look at a slide you never know exactly uh what the picture I know you're a cloud client that's that's how you roll but this is running on device correct and it means it's lightning fast it's local and it's mine and I can work while I'm on the move Intel has great Hardware to AI locally on your PC but it's not always easy for everyone to get started to give everyone the opportunity to try AI on their PC Intel has released an open source project called AI playground built specifically for Intel Core Ultra and arc graphics AI playground is a simpl to use Windows app with a really userfriendly interface you can get started with just one click it's free it runs entirely locally and has all of the latest capab abilities AI playground allows you to select from a rich set of AI models right sized for local execution on your Intel PC so let's check it out with Lee stable diffusion is a gen model that allows you to generate images from text or even other images here Lee is prompting the model with lunar and Lake of course to create these beautiful photos you see right here the inference runs almost instantly on the arc GPU fully local no Cloud needed from here we can switch right to a small language model using what's called retrieval augmented generation or rag rag allows you to directly introduce new skills or knowledge to personalize your AI it's like having a personal chatbot running your data locally on your Intel PC and here we see a great example for developers generating python AI playground is a great example of how we think about AI at Intel it's open accessible and secure it's a great way to get started if this is your first time using AI on a PC and it's also a great way to get a jump start if you're a more advanced user we hope you love it on your new core Ultra laptop so if that wasn't enough I have one more thing to share pre-orders for lunar Lake start today exactly and you can see systems on retail shelf starting September 24th we have more than 80 Unique Designs across more than 20 top oems many of our partners here in the audience being sold in more than 30 retailers around the world only Intel can deliver this scale what you see over here on your right and my left is a device wall of high quality premium systems from all of our top OEM partners and we can't wait for each of you to get your hands on one\n"