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Intel's launch of its Arrow Lake chips has not met expectations, with performance issues reported in comparison to AMD's offerings. This has led to a 4.5% drop in Intel's stock. Additionally, Nvidia is reportedly planning to enter the PC processor market with ARM-based chips, potentially increasing competition for Intel. Analysts currently rate Intel stock as a Hold, with a slight downside risk based on recent performance.
Intel's new Arrow Lake-based Core Ultra 9 200S-series processors have received disappointing reviews, particularly in gaming performance, despite some efficiency improvements. Intel acknowledges the issues and plans to provide a comprehensive update on the causes and solutions by late November or early December. The company assures that the fix will be straightforward, involving a BIOS flash and Windows update. Intel's VP, Robert Hallock, emphasized that the performance problems are solely Intel's responsibility.
Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake Desktop CPUs, branded as Core Ultra 200, are set to launch in October 2024. These CPUs will feature significant performance improvements with new Lion Cove P-Cores and Skymont E-Cores, offering up to 38% IPC increase over previous generations. They will also have lower power consumption, with TDPs at 80% of the current Raptor Lake CPUs. The new CPUs will be supported by Z890 motherboards, which are already being showcased by major vendors.
MSI has unveiled its next-gen Intel Z890 EDGE and PRO motherboards at Computex, designed to support Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs. The Z890 EDGE features a sleek all-white design, dual 8-pin connectors, PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 slots, and multiple M.2 slots. The PRO variant offers similar features with additional QoL improvements. MSI also showcased its latest Z790 MPOWER and Z790 PROJECT ZERO PLUS motherboards, highlighting innovations like Mini_CUDIMM slots and CAMM2 memory module support.
Intel is set to release its 15th Generation Arrow Lake processors later this year, featuring a new Core Ultra 200 naming scheme and a new LGA1851 processor socket, requiring a new motherboard. The processors are rumored to abandon Hyper-Threading, support only DDR5 memory, and offer up to 24 cores, with the flagship Core i9-14900K and 14900KS featuring 24 cores. These changes indicate a significant departure from the current 14th Gen models and suggest a faster, more efficient, and less power-hungry architecture.
Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake and Raptor Lake-H Refresh mobility CPUs will be branded as Core Ultra 200 and Core 200H, respectively, with the Raptor Lake-H Refresh aiming to offer better value in the high-end gaming category. The Arrow Lake CPUs will come in HX, H, and U flavors, featuring a mix of P-Cores and E-Cores, while the Raptor Lake-H Refresh CPUs will feature up to 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores. These CPUs are expected to be available by the end of 2024 or early 2025, with the Intel Core Ultra 200 lineup possibly including Lunar Lake-MX CPUs as well.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger confirmed during the Q4’23 earnings call that the upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake offerings will provide a significant threefold increase in AI acceleration compared to the first AI-enabled product, Meteor Lake. Panther Lake, scheduled for a 2025 release, is projected to deliver twice the AI performance of these products, marking a sixfold increase compared to the initial release. The CPU architecture is expected to incorporate Cougar Cove P-Cores and Darkmont E-Cores, and will be a top-to-bottom client product with desktop and mobile variants.
Intel's upcoming low-power Arrow Lake-U CPUs are set to provide a more affordable alternative to the Lunar Lake chips, targeting thin and light designs. Expected to be released in 2025, the Arrow Lake lineup will utilize Intel's 3 process node, offering a 10% performance/watt improvement compared to the Meteor Lake-U. Positioned as a cheaper option for mainstream and high-end CPU segments, the Arrow Lake CPUs will compete with AMD's Zen 5 "Strix Point", Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite, and Apple's next-gen SOCs upon release.
Early benchmarks of Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake iGPUs have been leaked, showing the Battlemage "Xe2" iGPU for Lunar Lake to be almost 2x faster than the Alchemist iGPUs in Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake chips, and outclassing the Arc A310 graphics card. The Lunar Lake iGPU also ends up 26% faster than the Meteor Lake iGPU, and it is ahead of the Arc A310 graphics card with a 25% lead. These chips are expected to be delivered in the second half of 2024, with the Lunar Lake CPUs designed for thin and light laptops and the Arrow Lake CPUs potentially targeting high-end gaming designs.
Intel is set to release its next-gen Arrow Lake gaming CPUs with AI accelerators later this fall, following up with the Lunar Lake CPUs in 2024, which promise significant IPC and NPU improvements. The Arrow Lake CPUs will target the gaming segment and feature AI accelerators, while the Lunar Lake CPUs will offer a new CPU core architecture and over 3X faster NPU performance. These chips will cater to high-end and mainstream platforms, replacing existing Raptor Lake and Meteor Lake CPUs, and will be deployed in desktops and notebooks.
AMD and Intel have detailed their next-gen laptop CPU families, including the Strix Point, Hawk Point, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake. AMD's upcoming Hawk Point APUs will feature Zen 4 cores and RDNA 3 iGPUs, while the Strix Point APUs will have a mix of Zen 5 and Zen 5C cores. Intel's 1st Gen Core Ultra lineup, Meteor Lake, is set to launch in early 2024, followed by the 2nd Gen Core Ultra family, Arrow Lake, in late 2024. Intel's Lunar Lake-M will target low-power laptops and is expected to arrive in 2025.
Internal performance projections from Intel reveal that the upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs could bring up to a 21% performance gain compared to the Core i9-13900K, along with a 2.4x faster Xe-LPG iGPU. The leaked presentation also shows that the Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs offer only marginal improvements over the Core i9-13900K. The Arrow Lake CPUs are expected to be Intel's next-gen desktop parts, launching in Q4 2024, with significant increases in both single-core and multi-core performance. However, these projections are based on non-retail chips, and the actual retail parts could be even faster.
Intel is reportedly set to release a simple refresh of its current Raptor Lake lineup in Q4 2022, with the more impressive Arrow Lake series arriving about a year later. The Raptor Lake Refresh processors will likely receive a bump in core counts, while the flagship Core i9-14900K will be limited to minor IPC gains and slightly higher clock speeds. The Arrow Lake-S chips should arrive in Q4 2023 or early 2025 and will require new LGA 1851 motherboards, with the top-end SKU limited to a configuration of eight P-cores and sixteen E-cores.
According to a leak by Moore's Law Is Dead, Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs are expected to beat AMD's Zen4 Phoenix processors, while the Arrow Lake CPUs could perform up to 40% better in multi-threading than Raptor Lake CPUs. The leaker also claims that Intel will use TSMC's 3 nm process for the ARL-S desktop Core i9/Core i7 and laptop Core i5/i7 processors. However, another leaker has described the report as "outdated, false" and containing few accurate details, so it should be taken with a grain of salt.
Rumored details about Intel's 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUs include up to 40 cores, a 30% performance boost, and a 2nm (20A) process with backside power delivery and Nanoribbon transistors. The desktop chips will feature a chiplet design with four tiles, including Compute or CPU, Graphics, SoC, and I/O. The iGPU is expected to have gaming performance on par with low-end dGPUs. Arrow Lake-S is expected to arrive in late 2024.