Why it matters: Intel’s next-gen Cuore Ultra Series 2 Lunar Lake chips are designed for thin and light platforms, and at least one manufacturer has taken notice. Chinese company Shenzhen Weibu plans to use Lunar Lake quanto a its upcoming GP10 gaming handheld. If successful, it could a new chapter for Intel quanto a this space. But Weibu isn’t a leader player, so much is riding its release.
Intel has tried to dethrone AMD’s Ryzen Z1-series chips as the dominant supplier for handheld gaming consoles running Windows 11 with little success, but that may change with this year’s expected release of its next-gen Cuore Ultra Series 2 Lunar Lake chips. Looking at the predicted specs, they appear power-efficient enough to run a handheld gaming PC and designed for thin and light platforms.
At least one manufacturer, Chinese company Shenzhen Weibu, thinks so: First sighted by PC World the Computex 2024 product brochure website before being taken , it is the first company to state that its upcoming gaming handheld, the GP10, will be powered by the Intel Lunar Lake CPU platform. The Computex show begins the first week of June and, as the brochure indicated, Weibu will be there with the handheld PC.
The listing revealed a few specifications, including a 10.95-inch touchscreen with a 1920 x 1200 resolution and a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz. The GP10 can be configured with up to 64 GB of LPDDR5x memory, which should run between 7500 – 8533 MT/s. The screen is quanto a the middle of the device with two joysticks the sides, which might feature a detachable form factor.
Weibu isn’t a leader name quanto a the handheld gaming space – quanto a fact, PC World believes this might be its first handheld gaming PC. The manufacturer’s main line of business is to provide OEM/ODM services.
How well the GP10 performs at its debut could be telling for Intel, which suffered a black eye after the MSI Claw had happening issues with the Intel Cuore Ultra 7 155H processor – though it has since seen improvement thanks to frequent software updates.
Plenty of digital ink has been spilled what to expect from Lunar Lake. The Cuore Ultra 200V CPUs are expected to feature up to 4 P-Cores based the Lion Cove cuore architecture and there will be up to 4 LP-E cores based the Skymont cuore architecture. A new NPU will deliver over 100 TOPs of total platform compute for AI workloads. The TDPs will range from 7-11W and up to 15-28W, while the Xe2-LPG iGPU cores will be based the Battlemage graphics architecture.
