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Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Chips With AI Capabilities For Copilot+

The CPUs will launch in early Q4 boasting upgrades including an 80% faster GPU and 5 times greater AI performance.

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2 years ago

June 5, 2024

Nour Nasir

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Intel has announced that its upcoming Lunar Lake chips, designed for Copilot+ AI PCs, will be released this fall. However, at this year’s Computex, the company provided more detailed technical information.

Lunar Lake CPUs will feature an enhanced neural processing unit (NPU), delivering up to 48 TOPs (tera operations per second) of AI performance. This is a significant improvement compared to Intel’s previous Meteor Lake chips, which offered a 10 TOPS NPU.

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In addition, the new 8-core CPUs will also feature an Xe2 GPU, promising 80% faster gaming performance compared to the previous generation, plus an AI accelerator with an additional 67 TOPS of performance.

However, the most significant (and unexpected) news is that Lunar Lake will also include onboard memory, in a similar manner to Apple Silicon. Lunar Lake chips will be available in 16GB or 32GB configurations, and allow Intel to reduce latency and system power consumption by up to 40% by positioning the memory closer to the processor cores.

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Regarding connectivity, the new chips will support the latest standards: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, PCIe Gen5, and Thunderbolt 4. It is surprising, however, that Intel has not committed to Thunderbolt 5, even though it plans to introduce the standard later this year.

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With the release still some months away, Intel has yet to disclose specific chip models or detailed specifications. Nonetheless, based on company benchmarks, Lunar Lake is expected to outperform Meteor Lake significantly. When running Stable Diffusion, Lunar Lake completed 20 iterations in 5.8 seconds, compared to 20.9 seconds for Meteor Lake.

Intel’s game-changing new chips certainly look like something for enthusiasts to get excited about, especially as over 80 different AI laptop models from 20 manufacturers will ship with the new hardware before 2024 is out.

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NEOPAY Wants To Follow Merchants Across Channels And Borders

A controlling 65% stake in noon payments would give NEOPAY access to marketplace sellers, online merchants and the payment flows they generate.

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1 day ago

October 5, 2026

Nour Nasir

neopay wants to follow merchants across channels and borders

It’s been a long time since checkouts were single defined places. A merchant might take payments at a physical register, on its own website and through an online marketplace, sometimes in more than one country. NEOPAY wants to follow those transactions wherever they happen.

The UAE payments company has entered into an agreement to acquire a 65% controlling stake in noon payments. NEOPAY already runs the acquiring infrastructure that lets merchants accept card payments, along with omnichannel acceptance and a merchant services platform. This new deal would add noon payments’ embedded payments platform, e-commerce gateway and merchant network across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. That would considerably expand both NEOPAY’s digital commerce capabilities and its regional reach.

For merchants, the attraction is a single provider for online and in-store payments, plus faster settlements, data and analytics, and value-added financial services.

“Payments should be simple, reliable, and built for the markets they serve,” said Faraz Khalid, CEO of noon. His counterpart at NEOPAY, Vibhor Mundhada, added: “We have built a strong payments business in the UAE, and our ambition is now to take that capability across the region”. The acquisition, Mundhada added, would “expand our footprint into Saudi Arabia and Egypt” while reinforcing NEOPAY’s position at home.

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NEOPAY is also keen to point out potential payment volume increases. The company says noon payments’ integrations with marketplace sellers and online merchants create high transaction density in some of the region’s fastest-growing digital commerce segments. It also believes control of the business would give it access to those merchant relationships and payment flows, and speed up the rollout of alternative payment methods and installment options.

The combined roadmap targets faster merchant onboarding, better payment performance, tighter fraud controls and embedded financial services. The deal could also strengthen cross-border payments and settlement along key regional commerce corridors.