It seems that the upcoming Intel Arrow Lake “Core Ultra 200” and Panther Lake “Core Ultra 300” laptop CPUs have made an appearance in some leaks. Customs and shipping log from nbd.ltd. Naturally, some details about its next-gen CPUs have been disclosed, showing us what process nodes the next-gen CPUs will have.
More About Intel Arrow Lake and Panther Lake
The Core Ultra 200 CPU family will span a range of PC platforms, from desktops to laptops and more, starting with the Arrow Lake lineup; the main segments for the lineup include “S” for desktops, “HX” for high-end laptops, the “H” designation for performance laptops, and “U” for the lower-power designs. This post will concentrate on the leaked laptop models.
Intel is integrating 8 performance cores (P-Cores) based on the Lion Cove architecture and 16 Efficiency-Cores (E-Cores) based on the Skymont architecture with the high-end Arrow Lake-HX “Core Ultra 200” CPUs, which are designed to mystify the desktop SKUs with similar die configurations. The Arrow Lake-H CPUs will include a traditional 14-core design with 6 P-Cores and up to 8 E-Cores just like the current Raptor Lake-P/H SKUs. Arrow Lake-U: These low-power chips will be 10-core with up to 2 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores.
Arrow Lake-H CPUs will come with GT2 tier graphics, which will be based on the Arc Alchemist Xe-LPG+ platform, whereas the Arrow Lake-HX CPUs will feature the same Arc Xe-LPG iGPU as a desktop part. Arrow Lake-U CPUs will also use an Arc Xe-LPG+ iGPU, but with GT1 configurations, while Arrow Lake-Y CPUs come with GT0 configurations only. Arrow Lake-H was leaked with N3B process node lettering, which suggests that Intel is still relying on TSMC for its high-end laptop chip requirements. This will include an N3B process node for the compute tile and an N4 process node for the iGPU tile, requests leaker @mikdt_dt.
In addition, the shipping logs confirm three Intel Panther Lake “Core Ultra 300” CPUs, in the UH, UPH, and P variants. All of these chips are now being evaluated on reference platforms, with Intel stating recently that they had “Power On” with PTL parts on the 18A node. Again, Tiger Lake-U low-power SKUs for thin and light platforms are also expected to back-package a potential resurfaced Panther Lake-U on-package LPDDR5X memory, providing for more flexible DRAM config beyond just 16GB or 32GB LPDDR5X capacities.
A leak recently also revealed 12 Xe cores based on the Celestial graphics IP, separated into H-series SKUs. According to a previous Dell leak, Intel Arrow Lake-H/P/U CPUs are planned for release in early 2025, likely around CES 2025, with Panther Lake CPUs set to drop in early 2026.
