XPS 14: Dell developing multiple refreshes before Intel Panther Lake-P and Qualcomm Oryon V2 overhaul in 2026

Dell has not been selling the XPS 14 9440 (curr. $2,999.99 on Amazon) for long, having introduced the 14-inch laptop in January 2024. While the company has not returned to the XPS 13 2-in-1 since its release in 2022, a leaked roadmap shows that Dell has multiple revisions planned for the XPS 13. For reference, the document remains readable on Scribd at the time of publication.

Dated August 2023, the 'XPS Thinking Roadmap' correctly shows the current XPS 14's release at the start of the year with Intel Meteor Lake-H processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs. Based on the image below, Dell intends to sell the XPS 14 as we know it until early 2025, when it will receive a processor refresh. Seemingly, the company will then offer the XPS 14 with Intel Arrow Lake-H processors and new NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, likely members of the RTX 50 'Blackwell series'.

Fundamentally, the Arrow Lake-H and RTX 50-based XPS 14 should look the same as the current model. Although the roadmap does not confirm this directly, the categorisation of both models under the same 'Pista' codename implies as much. Seemingly, a redesigned XPS 14 will arrive in early 2026, going off the switch to a 'Huracan' codename in the image below.

The same image suggests that the redesign will coincide with the introduction of Intel Panther Lake-P and Qualcomm 'Oryon V2' chips. Moreover, Dell intends to offer both variants with 40 W TDPs, although only the former will be available with NVIDIA 'refresh' GPUs. Finally, Dell is targeting a Nova Lake and NVIDIA RTX 60 series refresh in early 2027. Understandably, little to no details about this hardware combination are known yet.