Intel today also gave us a few tidbits around its upcoming Arrow Lake H mobile chips for high performance laptops.

Intel announced its Arrow Lake desktop chips — the Core Ultra 200S series — with significant reductions in power consumption but also underwhelming performance.

Intel is announcing three new CPUs: the Core Ultra 285K, Core Ultra 265K/KF, and the 245K/KF. You can see all the specs below, but the big new feature with Arrow Lake is a focus on efficiency. The company appears to have designed Arrow Lake to rid itself of the reputation it's garnered over the years for CPUs that run hot and require a lot of power.

DRR5-8000 will be a breeze with MSI's new Z890 motherboard series, DDR5-9000+ descired as 'easy' to achieve thanks to revamped one-click memory OC.

Intel executives say that the gaming market is still suspicious of the need for AI. So its new Arrow Lake desktop PC processor went with an older NPU instead.

Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop CPUs are almost with us, going by rumors, and the prevalence of leaks backs up this notion – with a few fresh pieces of spillage joining the recent flood, one of which will cause some concern.

It's an interesting time to be Intel. Between rumors of an alleged Qualcomm takeover bid (that's bad), the recent fanfare around the Core Ultra Gen 2 laptop launches (that's good!) and ongoing drama over stability issues in its 13th and 14th gen desktop chips (that's