Some new information regarding Intel’s next-generation Arrow Lake-P Mobility CPUs have been uncovered and it looks like Intel’s next-gen mobility solutions will feature a hybrid chipset architecture capable of competing directly against AMD’s Zen 5 and the latest SOC’s from Apple.
We saw the official announcement of Intel’s Arrow Lake family earlier this month and we expect it to be the 15th Gen Core lineup. The chip family is slated for launch in late 2023 or early 2024. the leaked information also revealed that this new Intel family will utilize two new core architectures which are codenamed Lion Cove (performance cores) and Skymont (efficiency cores).
The Arrow Lake chips also pack an updated Xe GPU architecture however, reports also suggest that Intel might be planning on outsourcing its Alder Lake-P CPU and GPU chips to be manufactured on the TSMC 3nm process node instead of its own ‘Intel 3’ node.
Speaking about the configuration of the Arrow Lake-P, there are a lot of differences to witness here when compared with the rumoured Arrow Lake-S Desktop platform. The Alder Lake-P CPUs are expected to get up to 6 Big Cores (Lion Cove) and 8 Little Cores (Skymont) which offers a maximum of 14 cores & 20 threads. The Arrow Lake-S is rumoured to get up to 40 cores and 48 threads so we can see the difference in core and thread between the desktop and mobile platforms.
The revealed information also indicates that for the Arrow Lake-P platform Intel going for up to 320 Iris Xe EUs in the GT3 configuration. This particular product is also marked as a Halo product and we can expect a high-end mobility SKU for laptops.
Intel Mainstream Desktop CPU Generations Comparison:
| Intel CPU Family | Processor Process | Processors Cores/Threads (Max) | TDPs | Platform Chipset | Platform | Memory Support | PCIe Support | Launch |
| Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen) | 32nm | 4/8 | 35-95W | 6-Series | LGA 1155 | DDR3 | PCIe Gen 2.0 | 2011 |
| Ivy Bridge (3rd Gen) | 22nm | 4/8 | 35-77W | 7-Series | LGA 1155 | DDR3 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2012 |
| Haswell (4th Gen) | 22nm | 4/8 | 35-84W | 8-Series | LGA 1150 | DDR3 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2013-2014 |
| Broadwell (5th Gen) | 14nm | 4/8 | 65-65W | 9-Series | LGA 1150 | DDR3 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2015 |
| Skylake (6th Gen) | 14nm | 4/8 | 35-91W | 100-Series | LGA 1151 | DDR4 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2015 |
| Kaby Lake (7th Gen) | 14nm | 4/8 | 35-91W | 200-Series | LGA 1151 | DDR4 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2017 |
| Coffee Lake (8th Gen) | 14nm | 6/12 | 35-95W | 300-Series | LGA 1151 | DDR4 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2017 |
| Coffee Lake (9th Gen) | 14nm | 8/16 | 35-95W | 300-Series | LGA 1151 | DDR4 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2018 |
| Comet Lake (10th Gen) | 14nm | 10/20 | 35-125W | 400-Series | LGA 1200 | DDR4 | PCIe Gen 3.0 | 2020 |
| Rocket Lake (11th Gen) | 14nm | 8/16 | 35-125W | 500-Series | LGA 1200 | DDR4 | PCIe Gen 4.0 | 2021 |
| Alder Lake (12th Gen) | Intel 7 | 16/24 | TBA | 600 Series | LGA 1700 | DDR5 | PCIe Gen 5.0 | 2021 |
| Raptor Lake (13th Gen) | Intel 7 | 16/24 | TBA | 700-Series | LGA 1700 | DDR5 | PCIe Gen 5.0 | 2022 |
| Meteor Lake (14th Gen) | Intel 4 | TBA | TBA | 800 Series? | LGA 1700 | DDR5 | PCIe Gen 5.0? | 2023 |
| Arrow Lake (15th Gen) | Intel 4? | 40/48 | TBA | 900-Series? | TBA | DDR5 | PCIe Gen 5.0? | 2024 |
| Lunar Lake (16th Gen) | Intel 3? | TBA | TBA | 1000-Series? | TBA | DDR5 | PCIe Gen 5.0? | 2025 |
| Nova Lake (17th Gen) | Intel 3? | TBA | TBA | 2000-Series? | TBA | DDR5? | PCIe Gen 6.0? | 2026 |
