Today, Intel announced at its "Intel Innovation 2023" developer conference that its first Core Ultra CPU will be officially released on December 14, including an artificial intelligence-based neural processing unit (NPU).
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Intel previously announced that it would rebrand its CPUs under the new Core and Core Ultra brands, abandoning the "i" brand in the process. In a press release, the company provided more details about the chips, which have been described in the past under the codename "Meteor Lake."
CoreUltra integrates NPU into client chips for the first time. NPU is designed to achieve low power consumption and high quality, and provide a new PC experience. It's ideal for migrating from the CPU to workloads that require higher quality or efficiency, or that typically run in the cloud due to a lack of efficient client computing.
Core UItra chips will also include an integrated Intel Arc GPU, which will have "performance parallelism and throughput ideal for injecting artificial intelligence into media, 3D applications and rendering pipelines." Intel said the CoreUltra chip is the first to use its Foveros packaging technology.
Intel also announced plans to launch new fifth-generation Xeon processors on December 14. The company says the new data center CPUs will offer better performance and faster memory than earlier models, but still use the same energy. The company demonstrated a single fifth-generation Xeon processor running ChatGPT on the cloud, which sounds pretty impressive.
The company also announced the general availability of Intel Developer Cloud. It is designed to help developers test high-end computing applications and artificial intelligence services.
Intel said:
The cloud development environment also provides access to the latest Intel hardware platforms, such as fifth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Emerald Rapids), which will be available in the Intel Development Cloud in the coming weeks and launch on December 14, as well as the Intel Data Center GPUMax Series 1100 and 1550.
Intel also briefly showed off an artificial intelligence demonstration of its upcoming Lunar Lake CPU at the keynote event, which is currently scheduled to launch in late 2024 or early 2025.