Intel confirmed at a recent Goldman Sachs Technology conference that it plans to launch a refresh of its Arrow Lake processors "next year," with its true next-generation Nova Lake designs to follow along before the end of 2026, as per a transcript of the presentation. Although this likely means at least another year of AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs holding the gaming performance crown, Intel maintains that it's "confident in the road map," as it stands.
The statement came from Intel's Corporate Vice President, Investor Relations, John Pitzer. He said: "We've got a couple of holes we've got to fill on the desktop front. But quite frankly, we feel confident in the road map [...] We'll have a refresh of Arrow Lake next year, which will help start the process on the desktop side, and then we'll conclude that with Nova Lake when we launch late next year into 2027."
