Intel’s new 8P+16E “Arrow Lake” silicon powers not just the company’s upcoming Socket LGA1851 desktop processors as the “Arrow Lake-S,” but also its enthusiast mobile processors, as the “Arrow Lake-HX.” The company is debuting this silicon later this year with the Core Ultra 200-series, which will see a ramp through 2025 across its desktop and mobile variants, but Intel is (or rather, was) slated to introduce an “Arrow Lake Refresh” microarchitecture as a follow-up, with a late-2025 debut and 2026 ramp. According to Olrak29, a reliable source with Intel leaks, this refresh has been cancelled.
The “Arrow Lake Refresh” microarchitecture would have been unlike “Raptor Lake Refresh,” which was essentially the same silicon, but powering speed bumped SKUs under a newer 14th Gen Core branding, it would have been a physically larger chip, with more cores. Specifically, Intel would give the “Arrow Lake Refresh” an 8P+32E configuration, with eight “Lion Cove” performance cores, and eight “Skymont” E-core clusters for 32 efficiency cores. Intel claimed to have made huge strides with increasing the IPC of its E-cores with “Skymont,” and the 8P+32E “Arrow Lake Refresh” would have been a multithreaded performance monstrosity.