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Intel says integrating RAM into Lunar Lake SoC was a mistake, might abandon desktop GPUs again | Panther Lake and Nova Lake laptops will return to traditional RAM sticks


During the company's third-quarter 2024 earnings call, Intel confirmed that its future laptop chips will return to the traditional use of RAM sticks, reversing Lunar Lake's radical...

During the company's third-quarter 2024 earnings call, Intel confirmed that its future laptop chips will return to the traditional use of RAM sticks, reversing Lunar Lake's radical shift to baked-in system memory. Intel claims that forgoing SODIMM sticks reduces power consumption during memory transfers by 40 percent, but users are stuck with the RAM that ships with the device. Intel launched its first line of discrete GPUs, Arc Alchemist, in 2022, but delays put the components behind the curve compared to competing products from Nvidia and AMD.

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