Intel Plans 'Razor Lake AX' Processor for Physical AI in 2028
Intel announced plans to release its 'Razor Lake AX' processor targeted at physical AI applications in 2028, delivering a platform computing power of 700 TOPS. This follows the anticipated rollout of 'Nova Lake' processors slated for early 2027. This roadmap highlights Intel's strategic push into the rapidly growing physical AI and robotics sector, significantly upgrading edge computing capabilities compared to previous generations like Panther Lake. The substantial jump to 700 TOPS enables more advanced on-device reasoning and autonomous decision-making for robots. 'Razor Lake AX' is reportedly Intel's first commercialized large-memory-bus high-core-count-GPU SoC, integrating 16 or 32 Xe3P cores alongside standard Nova Lake architecture elements. It significantly improves both graphical display output and AI inference performance.
## BACKGROUND
Physical AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that perceive, reason about, and physically act within the real world using sensors, control systems, and actuators, typically powering humanoid robots and autonomous machines. TOPS stands for Tera Operations Per Second, a metric commonly used to measure the processing performance of AI accelerators and edge chips.