Speculation on whether or not or not Intel is planning to launch a refreshed design of its Arrow Lake chips has been swirling as soon as once more. The chip maker has performed every part it may possibly to quash speak round a brand new Arrow Lake iteration, together with affirm the 2026 launch of its successor, Nova Lake. That will not be sufficient, nevertheless as Videocardz has noticed extra Arrow Lake refresh speak out within the wilds.
Weibo is a well-liked Chinese social media microblogging web site, and is usually an amazing supply for leaks, or simply weirdly particular hypothesis that seems to be true. Even with that primer, I perceive if the next sentence sounds a bit of bizarre. Golden Pig Upgrade Pack, a Weibo person recognized for sharing info on upcoming Intel merchandise, says the Arrow Lake refresh is confirmed and that will probably be coming to each laptops and desktop variations.
That’s apparently all the data we get on that for now, however I’m not one to look a present golden pig within the mouth. If earlier rumours nonetheless maintain true this factors to a model of Arrow Lake chips, such because the Intel Core Ultra 9 285, with an improved neural processing unit (NPU), versus one with extra cores. This is inline with Intel going all in on the AI processing of the unit, which might make some sense within the present local weather.
Though with the questionable success of ‘AI PCs’ and the restricted energy of NPUs in contrast with GPUs we’re nonetheless ready on a real killer use case for the additional AI silicon CPU folks hold jamming into their cores.
What does not make a tonne of sense is every part else. Arrow Lake did not precisely hit its goal at launch, with most being fairly underwhelmed by the chips. Even after the second spherical of upgrades launched with fixes, you continue to will not hear a lot reward for this era of chips.
We’ve additionally already seen Intel’s plans for brand new gaming laptop computer CPUs with the brand new Core Ultra 200HX sequence introduced in January. Though it is doubtless any refresh we see might be a Core Ultra 300 sequence as a substitute. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how intently they launch. That is, after all, if these rumours show true.
There’s a reasonably good probability Intel is posed to do one thing like this. We do not typically see rumours resurrect from the lifeless until there’s one thing behind it. Plus, it is fairly on-brand. Intel has been recognized to sneakily slide out processor refreshes, and Arrow Lake may do with actually something to refresh its repute. Here’s hoping no matter comes out is a little more inspiring than what we have seen to date.
