Intel has traditionally dominated the consumer laptop segment with its fast and compatible CPUs, but right now it’s facing a three-pronged assault from Apple, Qualcomm, and even AMD, thanks to new and extremely efficient processors from all three competitors. The company needs new technology to stave off these challengers to its laptop supremacy, and fortunately, said new mobile technology is on the way.
However, sometimes there can be a surprisingly long lead between the announcement of a new CPU and the appearance of systems powered by the chips. That’s not going to be the case this time around, it seems, because the very next day, Acer is holding one of its next@Acer events in Berlin. This one will apparently be called “Human Intelligence”, which is an interesting contrast to artificial intelligence—you know, that thing the whole industry has been going gonzo over lately?
Strictly speaking, Acer hasn’t said anything about Lunar Lake or new laptops bearing fresh Intel CPUs being shown at the event. However, Acer has been one of the company consistently providing demo machines for Intel’s stage shows, including at least one system used for a local AI processing demo. We would be shocked if Acer’s “Human Intelligence” show doesn’t focus primarily around Lunar Lake systems, especially given the temporal and geographic proximity to Intel’s announcement.
While Intel’s upcoming Lunar Lake chips with their 4+4 core count aren’t likely to challenge the multi-core might of twelve-, fourteen-, and sixteen-core CPUs from its competitors, the company is promising big single-core speed improvements as well as gains in efficiency, thanks to a total restructure of the processor design, a new robust graphics engine based on its Battlemage GPU tech, a more powerful 48 TOPS NPU and on-package memory. If you’re curious about all that, you can check out our deep dive on the topic for more information.