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

Intel’s quiver to be empty next year, with Arrow Lake Refresh canceled?

News By Darren Allan published 23 September 2024

Intel has apparently reshuffled its desktop CPU plans and there’s 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 that’s about to launch (in October, rumor has it), and the word from the grapevine in the past has been that next year’s 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).

So, what’s 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 isn’t an entirely new range, it’ll 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 Intel’s past plans, as a stepping stone to the true next generation, Nova Lake – but seemingly this isn’t the way it’ll play out.

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