Intel admits its mistake. It will restore deleted components
Intel intends to change the controversial practice it used in this year’s laptops with Lunar Lake processors. The company admitted it was a huge mistake.
Removable memory is coming back to laptops with Intel CPUs
Laptops with Intel chips Lunar Lake lacked the ability to replace and upgrade RAM, and instead had memory chips integrated with the processor. The controversial idea turned out to be a failure and Intel introduced the next generations of processors, i.e. Panther Lake and Nova Lake will give up this solution. Company CEO Pat Gelsinger admitted it was a business mistake.
This is strange because the “blue” advertised the greater energy efficiency of Lunar Lake systems by 40%, which was supposed to translate into longer battery life.
As it turns out from the latest financial report, Gelsinger considered Lunar Lake an experimentrather than the foundation for the company’s further operations:
Lunar Lake was originally intended to be a niche product from which we wanted to squeeze the highest performance and great battery life. And then AI computers appeared, which went from a niche product to something mass.
Moreover, beyond Lunar Lake, the company also intends to phase out dedicated graphics cards. Gelsinger notes that processors are becoming more and more powerful integrated graphics and there is less need for dedicated graphics cards.
