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Intel Plans Arrow Lake Refresh With Copilot+-Ready NPU and Slight Clock Boost

It will leverage Intel’s 20A process refinements to enable desktop AI acceleration for Copilot+ certification on existing platforms.

A close-up, detailed photo of a delidded Intel Core Ultra 200S processor, codenamed Arrow Lake, showing the structures of each tile comprising the processor.
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Overview

  • Intel is taking a final mid-cycle step with Arrow Lake Refresh slated for the second half of 2025 to bridge the gap until Nova Lake’s expected 2026 debut.
  • The refresh is expected to retain Lion Cove P-core and Skymont E-core counts with firmware and tuning optimizations driving marginal clock speed increases.
  • Reports indicate the addition of a new NPU4 architecture capable of about 48 TOPS, meeting Microsoft’s Copilot+ requirements for AI workloads on desktop PCs.
  • Arrow Lake Refresh chips are slated to remain on the LGA 1851 socket with 800-series chipset support to preserve existing motherboard compatibility.
  • Outside of AI and slight frequency gains, CPU and GPU core performance is anticipated to remain largely unchanged compared to the current Arrow Lake lineup.