Intel is abandoning the development of Lunar Lake processors for laptops. This is reported by The Verge.

The company considers its decision to build fixed RAM into the processor unit a mistake. Future generations of Intel chips, such as Panther Lake and Nova Lake, will not have built-in memory.

The company touted the built-in Lunar Lake memory as a competitive advantage when it came to laptop battery life. It reduces power consumption when transferring data through the system by 40 percent.

“It’s not a good way to run the business, so it really is for us a one-off with Lunar Lake,” says Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. “We’ll build it in a more traditional way with memory off-package.”

Gelsinger says Lunar Lake was meant to be more of an experiment than the foundation of Intel’s laptop efforts. Lunar Lake was originally designed as a niche product, but the emergence of AI PCs from various manufacturers allowed the chip to become mainstream.

Lunar Lake became a problem for Intel because the company relied too much on external partners who supplied memory chips from rival TSMC. Last quarter, when Intel announced massive layoffs and restructuring, Intel’s CFO revealed that Lunar Lake was too expensive to help turn around Intel’s fortunes.

Intel’s GPU efforts are now also seen as a failed experiment. Gelsinger says that the company is now focused on simplifying the company’s consumer products, and specialized GPUs are only in the development stage.