Intel has detailed its next-gen SoCs, codenamed Frisco Lake & Grizzly Lake, which incorporate Panther Lake & Nova Lake IPs at the Shanghai Auto Show.
Intel Fast Forwards Its Automotive SoC Roadmap With 2nd Gen Frisco Lake SDV SoC, Comes With Panther Lake uArch & 3rd Gen Xe Graphics, 10x AI Performance
Well, Intel just announced its latest Automotive plans, and they seem to be going all in with new SoC designs that incorporate their latest and greatest architectures.
Starting first with the 2nd Gen SDV SoC, codenamed Frisco Lake, this family is going to feature a CPU architecture similar to the Panther Lake chips, which will be launching later this year and are aimed for volume production in the first half of 2026. The chips will employ the Panther Lake IP & core architecture and there’s currently no word on the exact core counts, but the chips are said to feature TDPs ranging between 20 & 65 watts and offer 10x the AI performance and 61% efficiency improvement versus the prior generation which is based on the Raptor Lake architecture with a total of 12 cores configured between 12-45W.
Another major upgrade will be the addition of the 3rd Gen Xe architecture, or Xe3, which is known as Celestial. This IP will replace the current Battlemage architecture and will be a big upgrade over the 1st Gen Xe (96 EU) design incorporated by the current generation SoCs. Other features include 12 Camera channels and 280 Audio channels.
So…
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202x ApolloLake (Atom-N)
2020 AshCreekFalls (SkyLake-SP-Auto)
2025 MalibouLake (RaptorLake-P-Auto)
2026 FriscoLake (PantherLake-P-Auto)
2028 GrizzlyLake (MonumentPeak) with
[NovaLake Only E-Core???]
🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/KKE5yoWG6Q— 结城安穗-YuuKi_AnS (@yuuki_ans) April 23, 2025
Furthermore, Harukaze5719 was able to confirm through Kernel patches that Frisco Lake is actually based on Panther Lake IP.
Intel’s Grizzly Lake “3rd Gen SDV” Platform With Monument Peak SoCs Based on Nova Lake IP Geared For 2027 Launch?
But there’s more: According to an early roadmap obtained by 3elife, it looks like Intel has much more ambitious plans for the future. These come in the form of Grizzly Lake, which will be the 3rd Gen SDV platform with processors codenamed Monument Peak. These SoCs are likely to feature the same IP as the Nova Lake CPUs and employ up to 32 E-Cores. Do note that the Nova Lake CPU platform is expected to feature as many as 52 cores, but those also include P-cores and LP-cores.
Other details mention an Xe iGPU with up to 7 TFLOPs of compute performance, 6 display pipes, up to 12 cameras, AEC-Q100 Grade 2, and ASIL B support.
Now, if everything goes according to plan, we can expect the Grizzly Lake platform to launch some time in 202,7 as production was initially planned for 1H 2027. But that’s the old plan, and a lot has changed over to Intel, but knowing that they are speeding up the automotive game to attract as many EV wins, it looks like we can still very well see a similar launch timeframe as originally planned.
