Intel is also said to be planning a processor with a giant GPU
There will no longer be an Arrow Lake Halo; instead, Intel could come up with a particularly powerful combination processor in the Panther Lake generation.
A tray with Meteor Lake processors that use "normal" sized GPUs.
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AMD and Intel are apparently both working on combined processors with a particularly powerful graphics unit. They could end up in mini PCs, notebooks and other mobile devices that are designed to achieve high graphics performance without a separate graphics card. In the case of AMD, rumors of a Strix Halo with 16 Zen 5 cores and 2560 RDNA3.5 shaders are already concrete, with an expected launch in early 2025.
Rumors of a "Halo" processor from Intel recently flared up again due to US customs data. In July, validation boards labeled "Arrow Lake Halo Enthusiast Mobile Workstation" and "Arrow Lake Halo Mobile Workstation" were imported from India to the US, Videocardz noted.
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Intel is said to have previously planned a 14-core processor (six performance cores, eight efficiency cores) with 320 to 384 GPU execution units under the name Arrow Lake Halo. This would correspond to 2560 to 3072 shader cores with the current graphics architectures. By comparison, the current Cora Ultra 100 (Meteor Lake) uses up to 128 execution units or 1024 shaders.
Panther Lake Halo conceivable
In the Chinese Weibo forum, a Lenovo product manager (account name 思考未来啊) then wrote that a comparable processor should come, but "not so soon". Speculation then arose that Intel could use the GPU tile in the next but one CPU generation, i.e. launch a Panther Lake Halo.
Intel wants to start series production of Panther Lake with 18A technology by the end of 2025. A special variant with a powerful GPU would then be something for 2026, which would leave AMD's Strix Halo unrivalled for the coming year, if the rumors are true.
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