The Intel Core Ultra chip has arrived Certainly, NPUs with 10 TOPS of performance are helping to reduce the load on AI-intensive tasks But performance-wise, we're still just seeing, and battery life is still far behind the performance of Apple's best MacBooks

However, with the looming threat of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip, Intel seems to be moving quickly to the next generation, dubbed Lunar Lake Not only that, but thanks to Samsung's Galaxy Book 5 Pro leaking in our benchmark database, we got our first look at the guts of the CPU and its Arc Battlemage iGPU

Before we look at the numbers and start speculating what these mean, there is one important thing we need to know Early samples are always sent out to OEMs like this and are in the early prototype stage So while we can pretend to be shocked by the very low boost clock of 28 GHz, this is not necessarily representative of the final version

Instead, let's take a look at the configuration named "Intel Core Ultra 200" on SiSoftware (shared by @Momo_us on X) and see what green and red flags Intel is throwing up

Based on the specs of this prototype, the closest equivalent is the Intel Core Ultra 5 135U (found in Microsoft's Surface Pro 10) Let's take a look at the differences between these two chips

Of course, the question of what the NPU contains is still unanswered by the information we have obtained But fingers crossed that Intel will break the 10 TOPS limit As we recently found out, at least 40 TOPS of NPUs are needed