- The refreshment of Arrow Lake of Intel is supposed for the second half of 2025
- These desktop processors are supposed to be delivered with a much more powerful NPU
- This will allow them to use Copilot + features for the first time on the desktop – but the players will be less than impressed, without a doubt
Intel Arrow Lake refreshment processors, which would be the next Team Blue office processors later arriving in 2025, could have come with a surprise touch – an accent on AI chili pepper.
The penis has picked up an article by ZDNET Korea (translated) which claims that the main push of the refreshment of Arrow Lake will be a new NPU, and that the GPU and processors will remain the same as the existing Arrow Lake chips.
The NPU being drafted for new generation office processors would be that included with Lunar Lake laptop processors. The only other change will be the higher “slightly” clock speeds for the refreshment of Lake Arrow, we are told.
Currently, the Arrow Lake office fleas have an NPU, but it is too low to speed up Copilot + features (such as Windows research powered by AI, as well as the reminder -based capacity, and a few other more tips).
With Lunar Lake NPU on board – these notebooks are currently used for Copilot + laptops – desktop computers with Arrow Lake refresh processors could fully access these same AI powers.
Analysis: A new target for Arrow Lake?
A switch like this to focus on AI would be a fairly radical movement, bringing for the first time exclusive features of Copilot + to the world of office PCs.
What we should remember, however, is that it happens (potentially) in a context of very disappointing Arrow Lake players. Indeed, as the ZDNET article underlines, the previous generation of office silicon (Raptor Lake Refresh) exceeded Lake Arrow of three for one in Korea.
Given this fact – associated with unsuccessful attempts to perfect Lake Arrow to be significantly better for games via organic patches since the launch of fleas – if Intel is ready to deploy an updating of these processors in 2025 (which is not confirmed, I must note), the company may think that the game is at this point a lost cause (effectively).
Thus, under this perspective, a radical change such as an accent on the supercharging of the NPU – offering measurable advantages for office PCs in terms of Windows 11 features locked behind an “ `ia ”` ” to speak – can resemble an avenue that deserves to be explored.
I am not convinced on this subject, my mind, and I will wait for other sources on the vine to support this before I start to feel more convinced than it is the direction that Intel is heading towards. Skepticism in abundance is necessary, in short.
If this takes place, it should be noted that players get nothing – faster clock speeds will help get other images per second, that’s for sure. Although the way it is formulated as only faster “slightly” clocks does not seem too promising in terms of decent uprising – and it is doubtful that there is a lot of room for that, anyway.
The release period for Arrow Lake Refresh is supposed to be the second semester, but given this rumor – which is a heavily piece of speculation – which only appears now, it indicates a case later, rather than earlier, in H2 2025, I suppose.
