The Hot Chips 2024 conference has published a detailed schedule of presentations by Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and all other participants that will take place at the event. Over three days, from August 25 to 27, physical and virtual visitors will be able to familiarize themselves with materials, presentations, and key speeches from representatives of many of the largest technology companies. Traditionally, Hot Chips provides an in-depth technical dive into new processor architectures. Among others, this year's Hot Chips will cover AMD Zen 5, NVIDIA Blackwell, and Intel Lunar Lake.
Intel
On Monday, August 26, Intel is scheduled to present "Lunar Lake: Intel Core 16th Generation Processor." This is an interesting title considering that Intel reportedly abandoned generational names in processor designations. Intel also plans to present Granite Rapids D, AI systems, and optical networks.
Recently, the company provided a lot of details about the Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake architectures. According to the company, the Lunar Lake processors, set to be released in the third quarter of 2024, will provide 1.4 times more performance per watt than Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips.
Intel also claims a significant increase in battery life and energy efficiency in laptops: Lunar Lake provides the lowest x86 processor energy consumption in history, 20% less than Qualcomm chips and 30% less than AMD Ryzen 7 7840U.
The next-generation Arrow Lake processors for desktop PCs with artificial intelligence are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2024, and updates to these chips will be presented during the Intel Tech Tour event preceding Computex 2024.
Intel has updated all computational components of Lunar Lake, including the CPU, NPU (NPU), and a new integrated graphics processor with Xe2 architecture. The Xe2 iGPU design will debut with Lunar Lake, providing 1.5 times higher performance than current-generation Meteor Lake chips, thanks to the use of the same architecture and feature set that will be used in future Battlemage discrete gaming GPUs.
The Lunar Lake processor consists of three chiplets, one less than the four dies in Meteor Lake, indicating that Intel has combined SoC and GPU. Lunar Lake will feature P-cores with a new Lion Cove microarchitecture and E-cores with Skymont microarchitecture. Intel has not yet disclosed detailed specifications for Lunar Lake, but the company's materials indicate that the Lunar Lake processor, named Lunar Lake MX, will have 4 P-cores and 4 E-cores (4+4).
Arrow Lake is likely to 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 have more cores and increased power limits. Intel will also have more powerful mobile Arrow Lake variants for high-performance laptops. Arrow Lake will be built on the Intel 20A process node, while the next architecture, Panther Lake, will get Intel 18A in 2025.
AMD
AMD's next-generation Zen 5 core presentation at Hot Chips 2024 is scheduled for Tuesday, August 27. There have been plenty of Zen 5 leaks over the past weeks and months, including unofficial information on Linux changes, compiler release data, and PC release partners, but the Hot Chips 2024 presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of Zen 5.
Earlier reports stated that AMD CEO Lisa Su will deliver an introductory keynote on June 3 prior to Computex 2024. AMD updated its website to list the main themes of the presentation, focusing on AI and high performance. The topics also include "next-generation high-performance solutions for PCs, data centers, and artificial intelligence," confirming the update of the Zen5 architecture and AMD XDNA AI accelerators.
It is expected that AMD will introduce the Granite Ridge desktop processor series (possibly named Ryzen 9000) as well as the Ryzen AI 100 series known as Strix Point. Both products have Zen5 architecture and are expected to be released this year. In 2022, AMD made similar announcements at Computex, and the first desktop processors based on AM5 were released just three months later.
NVIDIA and Others
There is already much known about NVIDIA Blackwell B200 data center chips and Blackwell RTX 50xx consumer graphics cards. NVIDIA usually does not use Hot Chips to disseminate new information. Here are some of the interesting presentations:
- NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processor: advancements in generative AI and accelerated computing (Ajay Tirumala and Raymond Wong, NVIDIA)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Oryon processor: design and architecture overview (Gerard Williams, Qualcomm)
- Next-generation IBM Z processor ~5.5 GHz and AI Inferencing Accelerator chipset (Christian Jacobi, IBM)
Other interesting technical news will come from presentations by companies such as Microsoft, SK hynix, Meta, Tesla, Frore, and OpenAI. This year, Hot Chips 2024 has a hybrid format with offline events at Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University. Attendance will cost 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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