Intel & AMD Laptop CPU Roadmap Leak: Arrow Lake-HX In 2025, Refresh In 2026 With Panther Lake, Fire Range With 16-Cores & X3D In 2025

Intel's and AMD's next-generation CPU roadmap has leaked out, revealing when we can expect Arrow Lake, Panther Lake, Strix, Krackan, and Fire Range chips on laptops.

Once again this leak, like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" laptop lineup, comes from the recent CLEVO hack and exposes details on several next-generation chips from both Intel and AMD.

Intel Arrow Lake-HX (High-End) Laptop CPU Family

Starting with the Intel CPU lineup, the company is planning to move its higher-end HX series to the next-generation Arrow Lake-HX family which would feature up to 8 Lion Cove P-Cores and 16 Skymont E-Cores. These chips will be similar to the Arrow Lake-S Desktop SKUs. These chips are expected to launch around Q4 2024-Q1 2025 but CES makes more sense.

The CPUs will come in 55W flavors and it looks like Intel is also preparing an Arrow Lake-HX refresh which should offer updated specifications and additional AI TOPs that may not be of very much use for a high-end platform considering these chips will be running alongside some powerful discrete GPUs. The Arrow Lake-HX Refresh lineup is expected to debut by CES 2026.

Intel Arrow Lake-H/U & Panther Lake-H/U Laptop CPU Family

On the more mainstream side of things, it looks like Intel's Arrow Lake-H and Arrow Lake-U will arrive at a similar time frame as the higher-end SKUs, targeting CES 2025 but the Arrow Lake-H lineup is expected to be refreshed very soon, just 2-3 quarters later. The Arrow Lake-H and Arrow Lake-H refresh chips will come in 28-45W TDPs & the Arrow Lake-U series will be arriving in 15W flavors. While these chips will be pin-compatible with the previous Meteor Lake SKUs, the next-gen Panther Lake chips will be moving to a new pin arrangement.

The Panther Lake-H and Panther Lake-U lineup is expected to bring additional tops to the market and will be arriving around CES 2026. Intel has already achieved Power On with Arrow Lake on its 18A process node and while the 18A node is said to be ready for mass production in 1H 2025, the actual availability of these chips will be planned for 2H 2025. We will likely see Panther Lake first on the socketed desktop platforms rather than laptops.

Lastly, there's also an update on the thin and light segment which includes the Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" chips. These chips will come in 17W configurations and are expected to arrive in the second half of this year starting Q3 which is about right.

AMD Fire Range (High-End) Mobility CPU Family

On AMD's camp, it looks like the CLEVO roadmap at least shows that the majority of the next-gen lineup will be a 2025 launch. At the very top, we have the Fire Range CPU family which will rock the AMD Zen 5 core architecture with similar SKUs as the desktop parts which we have seen with the Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" lineup. The CPU family will retain 16 cores and also come in X3D flavors that will be boosted by 3D V-Cache for additional gaming performance.

AMD Strix Halo, Strix Point & Krackan Mobility CPUs

Next up, we have the Strix family which includes the Strix Halo chips with 16 Zen 5 cores and 45-50 TOPs while the Strix Point family, now officially announced as the Ryzen AI 300 series, is going to feature 12 cores and 50 TOPs.

Strix Point will arrive as early as July 2024 and CLEVO's model will likely be arriving later hence the 2025 listing. Lastly, there's the Krackan Point APUs which will come with 8 cores but retain the same 50 TOPS AI NPU. The Strix Point and Krackan APUs will be FP8 (LPDDR) compatible while Strix Halo will be FP11 (LPDDR5) compatible and Fire Range will be FL1 (DDR5) compatible.

News Source: Dominic Alvieri @AlvieriD