- Intel confirmed its CPU roadmap in the near future
- Lake Panther was later due in 2025 and Lake Nova in 2026
- It is still not specified if Panther Lake will jump the office, but it seems likely that the new generation office processors will not be there before next year
Intel has confirmed its future processor plans and how the company’s planned roadmap will take place in 2025 and 2026, although while leaving interrogation points on certain details.
We have obtained confirmation of existing plans – This Lake Panther is due this year, and Nova Lake next year – but there is still no certainty as to whether we will get a new generation of desktop processors later In 2025 (in other words, if Intel will remain at its usual annual rate).
As Videocardz reports, which the current co-PDG of Intel (temporary) Michelle Johnston Holthaus revealed during a recent call of results is that we can expect Team Blue publishes Panther Lake Silicon, His next generation, in the second half of 2025.
Holthaus then observed: “2026 is even more exciting from the point of view of the customer while Panther Lake reaches significant volumes and we present our family of new generation customers, the name of Lake Nova.
“The two will provide solid performance on the entire PC battery with a much better cost and margin for us, improving our competitive position and strengthening our value proposal to our partners and customers.”
Analysis: Panther form
Okay, therefore the new generation Lake Panther is still due later in 2025, and 2026 will be the year of Nova Lake, the next generation. Good to know, or rather to make confirm again.
The question is: What form will the Panther Lake and Nova Lake are exactly taking? The current rumor is that Panther Lake will only be mobile chips, which just means laptops, not office PCs. The observations of the new generation office fleas via the rumor mill have been confined to Nova Lake (so far, and it is done late in the day now).
Based on what Co-PDG of Intel says, there is no specific mention of desktop processors, so it is not useful. However, what we get Holthaus is an assertion that “the two will provide solid performance throughout the PC battery” and the keyword here is “both” of course.
The “whole pc battery” means mobile and office, the works and what seems to be indicated here is that Panther Lake and Nova Lake together will cover the whole pc battery between them. This is always true if Panther Lake has no office incarnation.
Alternatively, you can read this as Panther Lake and Nova Lake Will separately Cover the full battery, both from office and mobile, in its own right – but that does not look like the intention here. I mean, for me, it seems to be a way of forming things that are deliberately ambiguous to settle on the fact that Panther Lake or not has an office presence.
Take this for what you want, of course, and we absolutely do not know with certainty. Perhaps Intel has Panther Lake office chips in preparation, but on the basis of rumors, it seems relatively unlikely.
Another alternative could be that Panther Lake is only a laptop, but that Intel could bring out a refreshment of Arrow Lake on the desktop later this year next to it, as a stop of the office processors Nova Lake in 2026. Remind You, this is what happened with Lake Raptor, and it was a very minor generational bump – but past rumors said that Intel would not realize such updating with Arrow Lake for office computers.
In the end, for the moment, it seems to me that the probability is that the new generation office silicon in Intel will not be there before 2026, when Nova Lake flare in town.
