Intel is expected to launch its Arrow Lake-S CPU family in October, officially bringing the Foveros packaging to the desktop and bidding farewell to the monolithic CPU design. However, in light of the chipmaker’s ongoing financial and production woes, rumours are spreading that the chipmaker has cancelled the “Refresh” of the CPU family altogether.
According to user Panzerlied on the Chinese tech forum, Chiphell, sources close to them allegedly claimed that Intel has cancelled the Arrow Lake-S Refresh lineup, seemingly planning on jumping directly on to the next-generation, Nova Lake-S, which is only expected to see a release in 2026. In other words, we’re looking at a whole year without any new Intel-based desktop CPUs.
ARL-S Refresh is cancelled pic.twitter.com/NncQl3lDJS
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For the uninitiated, Intel has typically released two variations of their desktop CPUs: usually a flavour of the year and a Refresh of it the year after. Prime examples are the Coffee Lake-S series and more recently, the Raptor Lake-S family that serves as the bedrock for both 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs.
According to Intel’s roadmap, Arrow Lake-S Refresh was expected to bring larger chips with more cores to the table. As in, eight P-Cores and 32 E-Cores on a single chip, kind of big. And while unconfirmed, there was the possibility that the Arrow Lake-S family would go the way of Lunar Lake, doing away with Hyperthreading.
Beyond that, Panzerlied does not provide further details about the alleged cancellation, nor a reason as to why Intel may have cancelled the “Refresh” of its next-generation CPU. Until the chipmaker makes an official announcement about it, it’s best to take this bit of news with a healthy dose of skepticism.
