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Dell XPS Roadmap Leak Spills Beans on Several Upcoming Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm Processors

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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.

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Interesting to see Qualcomm. :)
 
Sorry as regards Intel, Intel already released their roadmap ages ago. We all know the progression is:

Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, Panther Lake, Nova Lake.

Panther Lake is mostly a Lunar Lake evolution and Nova Lake is Arrow Lake evolution although there is a lot of overlap and we may actually see some Panther Lake S chips but I doubt it replace Arrow lake Ultra 200 285 for example.

3 out of 4 of those are mobile centric apu/cpu's. So Dell has leaked nothing as regards them. All they shown us is when they'll be moving to each new gen not that Intel is releasing new chips. The thing that is new is we see the timeline for the inevitable Qualcomm updates of Oryon.
 
What is the deal behind the Italian (and a French outlier) sportscar codenames?

Ferrari: SF90 Stradale, 588 Fiorano, F8 Tributo, Portofino, 488 Pista;
Lamborghini: Terzo Millennio, Diablo, Huracán, Huracán Performante;
Bugatti: Divo.
 
What is the deal behind the Italian (and a French outlier) sportscar codenames?

Ferrari: SF90 Stradale, 588 Fiorano, F8 Tributo, Portofino, 488 Pista;
Lamborghini: Terzo Millennio, Diablo, Huracán, Huracán Performante;
Bugatti: Divo.
Expect massive prices rises from Dell due to royalties in using these names.
 
What is the deal behind the Italian (and a French outlier) sportscar codenames?

Ferrari: SF90 Stradale, 588 Fiorano, F8 Tributo, Portofino, 488 Pista;
Lamborghini: Terzo Millennio, Diablo, Huracán, Huracán Performante;
Bugatti: Divo.
Computer engineering teams have used themed codenames for decades. Sometimes these codenames remain hidden, other times they might be used by outsiders like Intel CPU code names (like Comet Lake). At one point Intel was using the names of rivers (many of them were located in California).

Nvidia uses mathematician names (Ampere, Ada Lovelace).

Apple used cat names (Panther, Leopard) then switched to California landmarks (Mavericks, Sonoma, Big Sur) for OS X/macOS. They have other names for internal projects that don't leave the building.

SGI used plant names for their IRIX OS in the Nineties (one was Kudzu). SGI used "Project Reality" as the internal codename for the Nintendo 64 console (chips designed by their MIPS subsidiary). Another was a dual processor (one integer unit, one floating point unit) that was known internally as "Twin Peaks" and externally as TFP (True Floating Point) leaving outsiders to guess what the "F" stood for internally. Heh heh.

Google has used candy names for Android versions.

Nintendo uses codenames both for software (game titles) as well as hardware. Allegedly the next-generation Switch successor has two codenames, the publicly known one is Muji which means "plain" which hides the internal codename.

These codenames are easier to refer to in internal discussions and often less confusing than using an alphanumeric code like B32 versus D41.

Clearly someone in Dell likes sportscars. That's fine as long as they don't slap the name on public facing literature or use them for marketing purposes. Remember that this was a company confidential document, it wasn't meant to be seen by the public.
 
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What is the deal behind the Italian (and a French outlier) sportscar codenames?

Ferrari: SF90 Stradale, 588 Fiorano, F8 Tributo, Portofino, 488 Pista;
Lamborghini: Terzo Millennio, Diablo, Huracán, Huracán Performante;
Bugatti: Divo.
A Dell CxO went to his garage and made an inventory count.
 
That "AMD" in the roadmap is probably just trolling or a typo.
We ARE talking about Dell.
 
That "AMD" in the roadmap is probably just trolling or a typo.
We ARE talking about Dell.

Why the mistrust, these guys are so clean and trustworthy :P
 
That "AMD" in the roadmap is probably just trolling or a typo.
We ARE talking about Dell.
if they really do this we could also see precisions w amd cpus too since they interchange the 2... some precisions are latitude based (3xxx are based on 5xxx latitudes) and some are xps based (5xxx precisions are xps based) and the 7xxx precisions are thier own thing
 
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