So, Intel has lifted the lid on its radical Lunar Lake mobile CPU and it's an awful lot to absorb. It's new across the board. New CPU cores, new graphics architecture, a new approach to both the internal fabric of the chip and its multi-die construction, a new external foundry node, just new everything. And true to Intel's current mojo in general, Lunar Lake is a fascinating mix of wonderful, weird, worrisome and, well, whatever.
The wonderful bits start with the new E-cores, which Intel says are roughly on par with the full P-cores in today's Raptor Lake desktop CPU for performance per clock. To get the full performance from those new Skymont E-cores, they'll need to be fully integrated into the CPU's high-performance fabric, which isn't the case with this new processor (but will be for future desktop CPUs using Skymont cores).
