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Intel Arrow Lake-P is the ace up Intel’s sleeve to take on Apple’s M chips

The chip giant is working on a generation of chips identified as Intel Arrow Lake-P. The letter «P» indicates that we are facing a series that will be focused on offering good performance, but with a tight consumption which makes them a suitable solution for ultralight laptops.

We had already seen information about them through some leaks that have been appearing recently, but now we have more details thanks to a new leak that leaves us with a slide extracted from the Intel roadmap. In it we can see that the top of the range chip within the next generation of Intel Arrow Lake-P processors will have 6 high-performance cores, 8 high-efficiency cores and will have a GT3 GPU with 320 execution units.

These specifications are official, since as we have said they have been extracted from an Intel slide. In it we can also see other interesting details, such as a time diagram with the states that this chip has gone through at the silicon level, and the state in which it is at that specific moment. The first version of Intel Arrow Lake-P is expected to arrive in late 2022, but it won’t be ready to hit the market until August or September 2023.

In the slide you can also read that the Intel Arrow Lake-P chips have, as their main objective, compete with premium Apple laptops in 14 inches. This fits with what we said at the beginning of the article, that the “P” series focuses on offering high performance, but adapted to the particularities of ultralight laptops.

Intel Arrow Lake-P processors will be manufactured using the N3 node, i.e. TSMC’s 3nm process. For its part, the Intel Arrow Lake-S processors, the version for desktop PCs, will be manufactured, in theory, with the Intel 20A nodealso 3nm, although it is not ruled out that these end up arriving under the Intel 3 node, which is a 5nm node but with a higher density of transistors than that reached by TSMC’s 3nm node.

According to the latest information, the chip giant would have prioritized Intel Arrow Lake-P over Intel Arrow Lake-Ssomething that may seem strange but that certainly makes sense, especially because of what the portable sector represents for Intel, and because of how well Apple has played its cards with its M series chips.

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