A product roadmap leak at leading PC OEM Dell, disclosed the tentative launch dates of several future generations of processors by Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. The slide was detailing hardware platforms for future revisions of the company's premium XPS notebooks. Given that Dell remains one of the largest PC OEMs, the dates revealed in the leaked slides are highly plausible.

In chronological order, Dell expects Intel's Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake-MX" processor in September 2024, which should mean product unveilings at Computex. It's interesting to note that Intel is only designing "Lunar Lake" for the -MX memory-on-package segment. This chip squares off against Apple's M3, M4, and possibly even the M3 Pro. Intel also has its ambitious "Arrow Lake" architecture planned for the second half of 2024, hence the lack of product overlap—there won't be an "Arrow Lake-MX."On the mobile platform, the "Arrow Lake" microarchitecture is expected to cover the -U (7 W to 15 W), -P (28 W to 35 W), and -H (45 W and above) market segments. All these chips feature a conventional package with discrete memory that's either hardwired on the mainboard, or socketed as SO-DIMMs or LPCAMMs. In terms of branding, "Arrow Lake" mobile processors are expected to retain the Core Ultra 200-series processor model numbering, given that "Lunar Lake-MX" will be confined to the 200V brand extension. The roadmap predicts a January 2025 availability of notebooks powered by "Arrow Lake."

Thanks to a little help from Microsoft, Qualcomm is now a fully fledged PC processor manufacturer with the chops to take on Apple's M-series SoCs. The Qualcomm Oryon "Snapdragon X V2" processor is being designed to take on Apple's M4 series processors that recently debuted with the 2024 iPad Pro, and which is expected to power a whole range of MacBooks that come out later this year. Dell expects these new clutch of Snapdragons in the middle of next year, specifically July 2025.

Although Intel "Arrow Lake" comes out in January 2025, it will have a rather short market run spanning just 3 quarters. Dell expects Intel to debut the Core Ultra 300 series in October 2025, powered by the new "Panther Lake" microarchitecture, spanning the -U, -P, and -H segments. There's no word on an -MX segment product succeeding "Lunar Lake." Intel will probably test the water with "Lunar Lake," and can probably develop a "Panther Lake-MX" product based on how the market receives it.

Looking deep into the future, Dell expects a solid 1-year product lifecycle of "Panther Lake" till October 2026, by which time Intel is expected to launch the Core Ultra 400 series powered by the "Nova Lake" microarchitecture, with commitments for the -U, -P, and -H segments (again, with the rider that there could be an -MX product based on how "Lunar Lake-MX" sells).

There is an unspecified next-generation Ryzen AI processor slated for January 2027 on this Dell roadmap. In all likelihood, AMD will launch several mobile processor generations between now and 2027, beginning with "Strix Point" (Zen 5) later this year.

The most distant blip on Dell's radar is Qualcomm Oryon "Snapdragon X V3," a future generation notebook processor slated for October 2027.