Lunar Lake’s integrated RAM won’t happen again, Intel CEO says [Video]

Intel’s current mobile processor, Lunar Lake, will be a “one off” design that incorporates memory inside the package, Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger said during a conference call on Thursday afternoon.

During its third-quarter earnings report, when Intel reported a loss of $16.6 billion that exceeded revenues, Gelsinger was asked about Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 mobile chip, the first to incorporate DRAM directly into the microprocessor package. Normally, laptop makers buy memory modules from third parties and either insert them inside a DRAM slot or solder them down directly.

That changed with Lunar Lake, which sounds like it was never intended to be Intel’s mainstream mobile chip. “You know, Lunar Lake was initially designed to be a niche product that we wanted to achieve highest performance and great battery life capability,” Gelsinger told analysts. “And then [the] AI PC occurred.”

With the rise of the AI PC, and the growth of the NPU, Lunar Lake evolved from being a niche product to a “meaningful …