Sunday, January 28th 2024
Intel "Panther Lake" Targets Substantial AI Performance Leap in 2025
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel Corporation, has outlined future performance expectations for the company's Core range of processors. In a recent fourth quarter 2023 earnings call he declared: "The Core Ultra platform delivers leadership AI performance today with our next-generation platforms launching later this year, Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake tripling our AI performance. In 2025 with Panther Lake, we will grow AI performance up to an additional 2x." Team Blue's Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" mobile processors arrived right at the tail end of last year, as a somewhat delayed answer to AMD's Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" APU series—both leveraging their own AI-crunching NPU technologies. Gelsinger believes that the launch of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake Core product lines will bring significant (3x) AI processing improvements over Meteor Lake. He seemed to confident in a delay-free release schedule for the new year and beyond: "We are first in the industry to have incorporated both gate-all-around and backside power delivery in a single process node, the latter unexpected two years ahead of our competition. Arrow Lake, our lead Intel 20A vehicle will launch this year."
He proceeded to gush about their next node advancement: "Intel 18A is expected to achieve manufacturing readiness in second half 2024, completing our five nodes in four year journey and bringing us back to process leadership. I am pleased to say that Clearwater Forest, our first Intel 18A part for servers has already gone into fab and Panther Lake for clients will be heading into Fab shortly." Industry experts posit that Core "Panther Lake" parts could borrow elements from the next generation Xeon "Clearwater Forest" efficiency-focused family—possibly the latter's "Darkmont" E-cores, to accompany "Cougar Cove" P-cores. The Intel CEO is quite excited about the manufacturing outlay for 2025: "I'll just say, hey, we look at this every single day and we're scrutinizing carefully our progress on 18A. And obviously the great news that we just described those Clearwater Forest taping out, that gives us a lot of confidence that 18A is healthy. That's a major product for us. Panther Lake following that shortly."
Sources:
Intel Financial Report, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, VideoCardz, Seeking Alpha
He proceeded to gush about their next node advancement: "Intel 18A is expected to achieve manufacturing readiness in second half 2024, completing our five nodes in four year journey and bringing us back to process leadership. I am pleased to say that Clearwater Forest, our first Intel 18A part for servers has already gone into fab and Panther Lake for clients will be heading into Fab shortly." Industry experts posit that Core "Panther Lake" parts could borrow elements from the next generation Xeon "Clearwater Forest" efficiency-focused family—possibly the latter's "Darkmont" E-cores, to accompany "Cougar Cove" P-cores. The Intel CEO is quite excited about the manufacturing outlay for 2025: "I'll just say, hey, we look at this every single day and we're scrutinizing carefully our progress on 18A. And obviously the great news that we just described those Clearwater Forest taping out, that gives us a lot of confidence that 18A is healthy. That's a major product for us. Panther Lake following that shortly."
56 Comments on Intel "Panther Lake" Targets Substantial AI Performance Leap in 2025
Intel, I beg you, please change up the naming scheme. I don’t think anyone can keep track of all the Lakes anymore.
:toast:
AI is the next big thing.
Intel is trading at P/E of a hundred, revenue declined 14% in the last full year. They're behind Nvidia and AMD with regards to LLM chips, by the time they even get a competitive product out, if they ever do the market will likely be sown up, gone.
Yes AMD and Nvidia valuations are ludicrous as well, at least the latter is making lots of money. AMD despite a better product stack than Intel somehow trades at 1000x PE. Probably won't end well, like Cisco back in 2000.
We are lightyears away from AI. Its just the next move to generate money.
It's not like Crypto where there's zero practical use case other than pyramid scheme esq buy and sell for more speculation.
Yes we're light years from actual Artificial Intelligence. There is end use behind what essentially has become mass hysteria. Exactly like Cisco back in the day in 2000.
Also that whole "snake oil" post does not help them a lot.....
Their gpu division stirs up some love though I think.
An advanced search engine is not intelligence, its a more complex algorithm. It is somewhere on the ladder towards a real kind of intelligence, and invites us to think about the ramifications and the actual definition of it - what IS intelligence, for example, when all information is already under our fingertips. I think true intelligence is about what you can actually do with information, and part of that 'product' is also directly how the product actually benefits us. There are upsides to our current form of 'AI'. But also many downsides. Its not even decided what weighs in more - weight being a very literal thing, as it is part of the key to machine learning: how you weigh each bit of information you feed a model. And then it becomes clear every single AI is still limited by it being a human construct. We're closing in on a paradox here.
Toaster, another such magical device. I still don't get how it gets those sandwiches so nice and crispy.
Well, I can still root for Samsung.
Edit: But let's not forget one of the biggest treasures that "AI" has given us.
I do hope Intel hasn't wasted too much of their efforts on riding this gimmick, but the harder they focus on things like this, the more I suspect there is little significant to talk about.
What's next, they're going to talk about who has the most "design wins"?
But wait a minute,
The T800 was running a MOS 6502…
and even Bender was running a MOS 6502…
so Skynet is already here?
(run around in panic)
(sarcasm)