Get ready for the big heavy-duty laptop showdown between Intel and AMD. New leaks spell out Intel’s big plan for a CPU that levels up the company’s strong GPU performance. Even better, we may finally witness the outcome of Intel’s odd couple relationship with Nvidia on a whole new laptop-ready chip.
Intel’s whole operation is tuning itself to beat back AMD. The mostly reliable chip YouTuber/leaker “Moore’s Law is Dead” offered a glimpse into the chipmaker’s upcoming roadmap. The first step on its winding path is a series of desktop chips, the previously rumored upcoming Nova Lake desktop PC processors that should launch sometime later this year. The real spice for laptops may come in 2027, as the supposed “Razor Lake-AX” series. While the YouTuber said Intel’s lower-end Razor Lake family will use similar P (performance) and E (efficiency) core architecture to “Nova Lake,” the big draw may be the promise of 32 Xe3P GPU cores on higher-end “AX” CPUs. That’s three times as many GPU cores as what we have on current Panther Lake lightweight laptops. The real interest lies in the future with a supposed “Titan Lake” lineup exclusively built for mobile platforms. You may remember last year when Intel and Nvidia did their Wonder Twins routine and shouted, “form of… we don’t know yet.” According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, Nvidia and Intel will include the Nvidia-made integrated graphics processing unit. The chips may also feature Intel’s first “unified core” architecture that removes E cores altogether and replaces them with less- or more-performant “Copper Shark” cores.
