An earlier leak said Intel would launch its Lunar Lake line of laptop chips in sometime in September, with some laptops slated to appear only at CES next year. Intel has just confirmed the aforementioned speculation via a press release. It will show off its new low-power silicon via a livestream on September 3 at 18:00 CEST (21:00 PDT).

So far, everything we know about Lunar Lake is via a slew of leaks. The lineup consists of nine 8-core (4 performance 4 efficiency) SKUs, with the Core i9-288V sitting on top. Models that end with '6' come with 16 GB of on-package LPDDR5X 8,533 RAM and the ones that end in '8' come with 32 GB. There are four Core i7 and Core i5 SKUs, with the former using an Arc 140V iGPU and the latter Arc 130V. Furthermore, the SKU also determines the computing prowess of its corresponding NPU.

Just about every Lunar Lake SKU has been able to trade blows with AMD's Strix Point-based Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in single-core performance. It lags behind in multi-core because AMD's offering packs more CPU cores. So far, it has what it takes to trounce Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite in performance-per-watt, but it can't take on Apple yet.