Intel Arrow Lake-H CPU For Laptops Shows Up A Year Ahead of Launch, 6 P-Cores & 8 E-Cores With Xe-LPG Plus GPU

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Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake-H CPUs for laptops are already being sampled as one 16-core configuration has been spotted in a shipping manifesto.

The listing of the Intel Arrow Lake-H sample was spotted on a shipping manifest by Harukaze5719, which reveals tiny details about the expected CPU core configuration. The mentioned Arrow Lake-H SKU features 6 Performance cores based on the Lion Cove architecture & 8 Efficiency cores based on the Skymont architecture. There are also going to be 2 LP E-Cores which are expected to adopt the Crestmont architecture, the same E-Core technology used by Meteor Lake. This will limit Arrow Lake's VPU capabilities a bit compared to Lunar Lake which will offer Skymont E-Cores on both E & LP E-Cores.

Apart from the CPU cores, the manifest has also mentioned the existence of "GT2" graphics for the 2nd Gen Core Ultra "Arrow Lake" CPU. The GT2 designation is for the mainstream integrated GPUs which in the case of Meteor Lake offer up to 8 Xe-cores, however, as mentioned earlier, the Arrow Lake-H CPUs will actually come with the "Xe-LPG Plus" which includes dedicated XMX units which will aid in improving Intel's upscaling technologies.

Apart from the Intel Arrow Lake-H CPU, the shipping document also mentions the Meteor Lake as well, suggesting that Team Blue is gearing up for the launch, which occurs on the 14th December. For a quick rundown on the Arrow Lake-H, the lineup is expected to feature the next-generation Lion Cove P-Core & Skymont E-Core architecture and will have the compute tile fabricated on the Intel 20A process node while the GPU is expected to be fabricated on the TSMC 3nm process node. Moreover, the inclusion of a dedicated VPU, which will start by the Meteor Lake, is