- Intel has confirmed its CPU roadmap for the near future
- Panther Lake will be overcome later in 2025 and Nova Lake in 2026
- It is not still clear if Panther Lake will skip the desk, but it seems likely that next -generation desktop CPUs will not be here until next year
Intel has confirmed its future CPU plans and how the company’s planned road map will be extended through 2025 and 2026, although it leaves the question signs about certain details.
We receive the confirmation of the existing plans, which Panther Lake will present this year, and Nova Lake next year, but there is still no certainty about whether we will obtain a new generation of desktop CPU later in 2025 (in other words, if Intel is will keep your usual annual cadence).
As Videcardz reports, which revealed the Co-Coo de Intel (interim) Michelle Johnston Holthaus during a recent gain call is that we can expect Team Blue to free Panther Lake Silicon, his next generation, in the second half of 2025.
Holthaus then observed: “2026 is even more exciting from the perspective of a client, since Panther Lake achieves significant volumes and we present our next -generation client, the family with name in Nova Lake code.
“Both will provide strong performance throughout the PC battery with a significantly better cost and margin for us, improving our competitive position and reinforcing our value proposition to our partners and customers.”
ANALYSIS: Panther shape
Well, then the next -generation Panther Lake must still be overcome later in 2025, and 2026 will be the year of Nova Lake, the next generation. It is good to know, or rather, to have that confirmed again.
The question is: What way will Panther Lake and Nova Lake take exactly? The current rumor is that Panther Lake will only be mobile chips, which means only laptops, not desktop PC. The next -generation desktop chips sightings through the rumor factory have been limited only to Nova Lake (until now, and is becoming late in the day).
According to what Intel’s co-cement says here, there is no specific mention of desktop CPUs, so that is not useful. However, what we get from Holthaus is an affirmation that “both will provide a strong yield throughout the PC stack” and the keyword here is ‘both’, of course.
The “full PC battery” means mobile and desk, the works and what seems to declare itself is that both Panther Lake and Nova Lake together It will cover the entire PC battery between them. This is still true if Panther Lake does not have a desktop incarnation.
Alternatively, I could read this as Panther Lake and Nova Lake will separately Cover the full battery, both desk and mobile, in your own right, but that does not feel like the intention here. With which I mean, for me, this seems to be a way of writing deliberately ambiguous things to ignore whether Panther Lake will have a desk presence.
Take that for what I want, of course, and we don’t know it with certainty. Maybe Intel has Panther Lake desktop chips in process, but according to rumors, it seems relatively unlikely.
Another alternative could be that Panther Lake is only for portable computer, but Intel could take an update of Arrow Lake on the desktop at the end of this year, like a stopgap before the NOVA Lake desktop CPU in 2026. Remember, that’s what it is what That happened with Raptor Lake, and that was a very minor generational blow, but past rumors have affirmed that Intel will not carry out such update with Arrow Lake for desks.
Ultimately, for now, it seems to me that the probability is that Intel’s next -generation desktop silicon will not be here until 2026, when Nova Lake sets on fire to the city.
