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The Hot Chips 2024 conference has published a detailed schedule of presentations from Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and all other participants who will take place at the event. Over three days, from August 25 to 27, physical and virtual visitors will be able to experience playbooks, presentations and keynotes from many of the largest technology companies. As is tradition, Hot Chips features a deep technical dive into new processor architectures. Among others, AMD Zen 5, NVIDIA Blackwell and Intel Lunar Lake will be reviewed this year by Hot Chips.
Intel
Intel is scheduled to launch a presentation on Monday, August 26, titled “Lunar Lake: 16th Generation Intel Core Processor.” This is an interesting name, considering that Intel supposedly abandoned generations in the names of processors. Intel is also planning presentations on Granite Rapids D, AI systems, and optical networking.
The company recently offered a lot of details regarding the Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake architectures. According to the company, Lunar Lake processors, scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2024, will provide 1.4 times faster performance than Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips.
Intel also claims significant improvements in battery life and power efficiency in laptops: Lunar Lake delivers the lowest x86 power consumption in history, 20% less than Qualcomm chips and 30% less than Ryzen 7 7840U from AMD.
Next-generation Arrow Lake desktop AI processors are on the roadmap for Q4 2024, with updates to these chips coming during the Intel Tech Tour event that precedes Computex 2024.
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Intel has updated all Lunar Lake computing components, including the CPU, NPU, and new integrated graphics processor with Xe2 architecture. The Xe2 iGPU design debuts with Lunar Lake and will deliver 1.5x the performance of current-generation Meteor Lake chips, using the same architecture and feature set that will be featured in future Battlemage discrete gaming GPUs.
The Lunar Lake processor consists of three chiplets, one less than Meteor Lake's four tiles, indicating that Intel has combined the SoC and GPU. Lunar Lake will receive P-cores with the new Lion Cove microarchitecture and E-cores with the Skymont microarchitecture. Intel has not yet released detailed specifications for Lunar Lake, but from the company's materials it follows that the processor, called Lunar Lake MX, will receive 4 P-cores and 4 E-cores (4+4).
Arrow Lake will likely be based on the same architecture as Lunar Lake – the company describes the series as an extension of the Core Ultra family. The processors will get more cores and an increased power limit. Intel will also have more powerful Arrow Lake mobile options for high-end laptops. Arrow Lake will be built on Intel's 20A process technology, while the next architecture, Panther Lake, will feature Intel's 18A in 2025.
AMD
AMD's next-generation Zen 5 core will be unveiled at Hot Chips 2024 on Tuesday, August 27th. There have been quite a few Zen 5 leaks in recent weeks and months, including unofficial information on Linux changes, compiler releases and PC company partners, but the Hot Chips 2024 presentation will provide a comprehensive look at Zen 5.
It was previously reported that AMD CEO Lisa Su will give a keynote speech on June 3 ahead of Computex 2024. AMD has updated its website to list the main topics of the talk – they relate to AI and high performance. It also talks about the “next generation of high-performance solutions for PCs, data centers and artificial intelligence,” which confirms the update of the Zen5 architecture and AMD XDNA artificial intelligence accelerators.
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AMD is expected to introduce both the Granite Ridge series of desktop processors (possibly called the Ryzen 9000) and the Ryzen AI 100 series, known as Strix Point. Both products feature Zen5 architecture and are due out this year. In 2022, AMD made similar announcements at Computex, and the first AM5-based desktop processors were released only three months later.
NVIDIA and others
Also, the NVIDIA Blackwell B200 data center chips and Blackwell RTX 50xx graphics cards for consumers are already widely known. NVIDIA does not typically use Hot Chips to distribute new information. Here are some interesting reports we are still talking about:
- NVIDIA Blackwell GPU: Advancing Generative AI and Accelerated Computing (Ajay Tirumala and Raymond Wong, NVIDIA)
- Snapdragon X Elite Qualcomm Oryon Processor: Design and Architecture Review (Gerard Williams, Qualcomm)
- New generation IBM Z processor ~5.5 GHz and AI Inferencing Accelerator chipset (Christian Jacobi, IBM)
Other interesting tech news will come from presentations from companies such as Microsoft, SK hynix, Meta, Tesla, Frore and OpenAI. This year, Hot Chips 2024 has a hybrid format with offline events at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium. Attendance will range from $65 for one day (for students) to $750 for three days for non-IEEE members.
Sources: Hot Chips, Tom’s Hardware, VideoCardz
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