MWC 2025 | More efficient mobile workstation laptops on the horizon: Intel releases Arrow Lake CPUs for business laptops

HP ZBook, Lenovo ThinkPad P series, Dell Precision or rather Dell Pro Max - mobile workstations are among the most powerful and expensive laptops offered by the manufacturers. Despite this, customers had to have a lot of patience with these devices, as the mobile workstations barely got any updates. Especially when they were equipped with processor of the HX class, as models like the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 (available from Amazon) were stuck on Raptor Lake refresh.

At MWC 2025, Intel officially released the Arrow Lake platform for the commercial sector, so for laptops that are mainly meant for the enterprise sector. This means that we will see many Lenovo ThinkPads, HP EliteBooks and Dell Pro laptops with the new processors flood the market soon. As always, Intel is releasing its own CPUs as special vPro version with powerful management and security features for large corporate customers.

This includes the Arrow Lake HX chips for mobile workstations, which for the first time will be able to feature a more modern architecture than Raptor Lake Refresh and come with new technologies like an NPU integrated into the CPU or Thunderbolt 5 via a dedicated solution.

However, there is one thing that may still delay the new CAD machines are the GPUs. Intel has officially announced the new processors, but the dedicated professional Nvidia GPUs are still missing in action. Up until now, Nvidia has not yet announced their new Blackwell based RTX GPUs, aside from the consumer version for gaming laptops.

It should not take too long now, however - we expect to see the new professional GPUs to launch early summer at the latest, with the new mobile workstations coming out at the same point.