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Stay updated on Intel’s hardware roadmap, featuring Nova Lake CPU leaks, Arc GPU updates, and the battle for desktop supremacy.
… That's according to Turkish analyst Erdi Özüağ, who posted his scoop on Twitter yesterday. Özüağ reports that Intel's current roadmap shows the first "Serpent Lake" next-gen processors with Nvidia RTX graphics as arriving in the first quarter of 2028, with CES in January of that year being mooted a… …
… Source: @jaykihn on Twitter As a reminder, Intel is also planning a proper new generation of its Intel Core Ultra series CPUs, codenamed Nova Lake, with a new LGA1954 socket on the 900-series motherboard platform. …
Intel is reportedly planning a major launch of its Panther Lake chipset for gaming handhelds under the Arc G3 brand at Computex, which is kicking off in a week's time. …
… Intel's 900-series chipset succeeds the current 800-series, moving from the Core Ultra 200-series Arrow Lake and Arrow Lake-S processors to next-gen 300-series Nova Lake-S models. It's also possible that Intel will take a page from AMD's book by supporting next-next-gen Razor Lake CPUs too. …
… If you're interested in doing something similar, the Reddit post includes details of the precise Steam Deck image to use for the USB-based install and two potential workarounds for the Intel card. One option is using an AMD GPU to set up the system, then swap to the Intel card. …
… Intel is set to announce a raft of handhelds at this year's Computex trade show, which kicks off in early June. …
… Specification Arc G3 Extreme Arc G3 CPU Cores/Threads 14 14 P-core Max Turbo Freq 4.7GHz 4.6GHz Smart Cache LLC 12MB 12MB NPU 46TOPS 46TOPS Graphics Intel Arc B390 Intel Arc B370 Total Xe Cores 12Xe 10Xe GPU Max Freq 2.3GHz 2.2GHz PCIe Lanes 12 x8 G4, x4 G5 12 x8 G4, x4 G5 Thunderbolt 2x TBT4 2x TB… …
… With Intel's Celestial series of desktop graphics cards reportedly shelved despite convincing integrated results and its Druid series still up in the air, it's possible that the Arc Pro B70 represents the pinnacle of Intel discrete GPU achievement. …
… Elsewhere, AMD continues to make up ground on Intel in the CPU space, a trend that has been continuing since the release of Ryzen 3000 processors in 2019. It's now 46 percent to AMD and 54 percent to Intel, an eight percent point swing since the start of 2025 when it was 38 percent to 62 percent . …
… For gaming purposes, the Intel silicon also boasts XeSS upscaling and multi-frame generation, lacking on competing RDNA 3.5 processors. …