AMD will be pleased to hear the latest rumor on Intel CPUs after Arrow Lake, no desktop chips are coming until Nova Lake in 2026

Date:
Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:48:58 +0000

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Intel was supposed to have Arrow Lake Refresh processors coming in 2025, but apparently that isnt the case.

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Intel has apparently reshuffled its desktop CPU plans and theres no longer an Arrow Lake Refresh in the cards, if a fresh piece of speculation is correct.

If you recall, Arrow Lake is the next generation of processors from Intel thats about to launch ( in October, rumor has it ), and the word from the grapevine in the past has been that next years generation of silicon from
Team Blue would be an Arrow Lake Refresh.

However, according to leaker Panzerlied a regular contributor of hardware-related theorizing from the Chiphell forums Arrow Lake Refresh is now canceled (as flagged on X by Everest). ARL-S Refresh is cancelled pic.twitter.com/NncQl3lDJS September 23, 2024

So, whats going to replace it? Absolutely nothing, according to Panzerlied Intel will just not bother with a new generation of desktop silicon in 2025.

Instead, Team Blue will simply look to launch entirely new Nova Lake CPUs in 2026, if the leaker is right and obviously, take this with a whole lot of seasoning.

Typically, Intel launches new desktop processors on a yearly cadence (or thereabouts), and even if there isnt an entirely new range, itll push out a simple refresh of some kind just as was the case with the current
generation, Raptor Lake Refresh.

So, rumors of an Arrow Lake Refresh seemed to fit in terms of Intels past plans, as a stepping stone to the true next generation, Nova Lake but seemingly this isnt the way itll play out. (Image credit: Future / John Loeffler) Analysis: Are desktop CPUs sliding down the priority list for
Intel?

This is a briefly worded assertion and something of a bolt out of the blue,
so we must be very cautious here. Of course, the fact that Intel was planning to refresh Arrow Lake next year was only a rumor in the first place, so this may simply have been a notion which has now been abandoned. Maybe there isnt much room to maneuver in terms of juicing up Arrow Lake meaningfully to get more performance out of the chips who knows.

We can indulge in all sorts of theorizing, really, but taking this latest rumor at face value, what it means is that Arrow Lake is all Intel will have on the table, desktop-wise, for two years now. Nova Lake will be the next
stop for the desktop train, as noted, in 2026.

We previously figured Nova Lake which was supposed to be the debut of Intels big Royal Core project , though supposedly now thats not happening would arrive later in 2026, but if theres no new desktop CPU line-up in 2025, that presents the possibility that Intel would want to usher in Nova Lake earlier in 2026.

Intel will, of course, need a major improvement in the works to take on AMDs Zen 6 processors (Ryzen 10000? or perhaps a rejig of the naming scheme will be in order). Mainly because Zen 6 is expected to be a huge leap forward for AMD in a similar vein to Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000), which was a big step on going to 7nm from the original Zens 14nm process and Zen 6 is expected to debut in 2026 .

Perhaps Intel feels comfortable enough relying on Arrow Lake desktop for the next two years (or maybe year-and-a-half), or perhaps this reflects what
seems to be Team Blues increasing focus on the laptop world , and pushing on the efficiency front with mobile processors ( Lunar Lake sounds pretty
awesome ), rather than looking to raw performance. Or this could be meaningless chatter from the rumor mill that turns out to be false, of course
take it with plenty of salt as weve already said.

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