Intel Arrow Lake-S Refresh reportedly canceled: Nova Lake will now succeed Arrow Lake

Intel has reportedly nixed its upcoming Arrow Lake-S Refresh, where rumor has it that Nova Lake will now succeed the upcoming Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake-S" desktop CPUs.

In a new post on Chiphell and X, leaker "Panzerlied" said that the Arrow Lake Refresh has been "canceled" adding that Arrow Lake-S will "battle for two years". Intel appears confident that its upcoming Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake-S" processors that it will push out its next-gen CPU launch until Nova Lake.

Arrow Lake-S Refresh would've been compatible with the new LGA 1851 socket, but we can expect Nova Lake to slot right into the new LGA 1851 socket, but things could change (I doubt it, changing sockets from LGA 1700 to LGA 1851 and then again in two years would look HORRIBLE against AM5 and its many years of life so far, and into the future).

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AMD has its new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" CPUs on the market now, with promised Ryzen 9000X3D series CPUs with next-gen 3D V-Cache expected to launch in early 2025. Intel will have Arrow Lake-S on the market when AMD responds with Ryzen 9000X3D processors, so without Arrow Lake-S Refresh, we'll be waiting until Nova Lake for when Intel will have a response to Ryzen 9000X3D in 2025.

However, AMD is expected to unleash its next-generation Zen 6 architecture in 2026, which will fight directly against Nova Lake.

• 2021: Alder Lake (mobile + desktop)
• 2022: Raptor Lake (mobile + desktop)
• 2023: Meteor Lake (mobile)
• 2023: Raptor Lake Refresh (mobile + desktop)
• 2024: Lunar Lake (premium mobile)
• 2024: Arrow Lake (mobile + desktop)
• 2025: Panther Lake (premium mobile)
• 2025: Arrow Lake Refresh (mobile, but desktop canceled)
• 2026: Nova Lake (mobile + desktop)