Razor Lake-AX: Intel Aims for 700 TOPS by 2028

700 TOPS? Will that give Intel a real advantage, or will it just allow it to catch up to NVIDIA?

In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about the arrival of the next generation of Intel processors. The much-anticipated Nova Lake lineup is set to revolutionize the American company’s product lineup with a new manufacturing process (Intel 18A), as well as a new physical form factor (LGA-1954 socket), a new scaled-up third-level cache (bLLC, for Big Last Level Cache), and a whole host of other improvements designed to outshine AMD’s Ryzen processors. However, Intel is obviously not stopping at Nova Lake, which is expected to launch in the first quarter of next year. The company’s top executives are already looking beyond that.

Cho Min-sung at the Semiconductors Powering Humanoids conference. © VideoCardz

According to VideoCardz, Cho Min-sung—executive director at Intel Korea—made these remarks during the “Semiconductors Powering Humanoids” conference, held in South Korea on October 16. There, Cho Min-sung focused primarily on robotics and artificial intelligence, highlighting the power of Intel’s most powerful chips—the Panther Lake processors, which are said to deliver 180 TOPS. He then clarified that by 2027, the American company will achieve a significant performance boost, before mentioning a staggering 700 TOPS by 2028 with a Razor Lake-AX processor. This is actually a chip we’ve discussed before, but one that was initially intended to boost the Nova Lake lineup.

Unfortunately, aside from this impressive figure, Cho Min-sung didn’t say much else. Rather than going into detail, he chose to compare Intel’s future solution to the current industry benchmark, NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Orin chip. The latter is rated at 275 TOPS in INT8, and the Intel executive pointed out that the Razor Lake-AX will be 2.5 times more powerful—without mentioning either the power consumption of the two products or the fact that NVIDIA already has a successor to Orin, with the Jetson Thor. Still, with an announcement like this—and even if competitors won’t take it lying down—Intel is showing that it’s capable of making progress. And quickly.