Intel Arrow Lake Refresh was stated to succeed Arrow Lake. However, it appears that Intel has canceled its Refresh series of CPUs.
The Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake CPU series is expected to release starting this year and will be based on an entirely new LGA1851 socket. We already know a few things about the series.
First, we know that it’s going to be made by TSMC, will not have hyper-threading, will support only DDR5. Second, we know about their possible specs.
Till now, there were rumors that Intel might also refresh a successor to the Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake CPU series, just like how it did with the Raptor Lake series. However, that seems to have been canceled, at least on desktops.
Intel Cancels Arrow Lake Refresh
In a now edited post, well known leaker panzerlied had revealed (via @Olrak29_) that Intel has canceled the Intel Arrow Lake Refresh. While panzerlied has edited it’s earlier post, we aren’t quite sure what to make out of it.
First, we don’t think Intel ever confirmed that it’s going to release any Arrow Lake Refresh. Any information that came was from rumors. Second, while panzerlied originally did reveal the cancelation, the post being edited makes us wonder why.
The interesting thing about Intel Arrow Lake is that while TSMC is manufacturing the CPUs on it’s N3 (3nm) node, there were some chances that the Arrow Lake Refresh could be made on Intel’s 20A (2nm) node. But that’s out of contention as Intel has canceled it’s 20A process node in favor of an even newer 18A process node. So the Arrow Lake Refresh, if any, was going to be still made at TSMC.
Now, if Intel does indeed cancel the Arrow Lake Refresh on desktops, it might jump directly from Arrow Lake to its successor Nova Lake, something which VideoCardz says could have a major architectural overhaul on desktops. It also means that the Arrow Lake series will run for two long years.
Not to forget, panzerlied was replying to the original post which rumored that Intel Arrow Lake CPUs are going to perform well in software benchmarks but underperform in gaming.
Interestingly, @Olrak29_ also wonders if LGA1851 socket exists for only one generation and that Intel might switch to an entirely new socket for the Nova Lake series of CPUs. Even @9550pro thinks the same.
