The successor to Intel’s Lunar Lake says it will return to using the traditional form of memory sticks, instead of integrating the modules directly into the chipset. The chipmaker confirmed the decision during its third-quarter 2024 earnings call.
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, confirmed during the call that future architectures like Panther Lake and Nova Lake will not use the baked-in memory anymore, stating that Lunar Lake was a “one-off” project, initially designed for a niche market before it came into its own for the current and growing AI market.
As a quick primer, the current Lunar Lake 200V laptop CPU range come with either 16GB or 32GB LPDDR5X SODIMM RAM integrated directly into the processor tile. Intel said that by doing this, it is able to drastically reduce the power consumption of laptops by 40%. The trade-off, unfortunately, is that users are stuck with either amount of RAM that the chip ships out with.
In addition to Intel reverting back to using the conventional form of memory modules, it also announced that it was reassessing its ARC desktop GPU development and will continue to do so over the coming years.
(Source: The Verge, Tom’s Hardware)
