Intel's 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021's 12th-gen Core processors. The new Core Ultra CPUs (and their underlying architectural changes) were exclusive to laptops.

Intel unveiled the new Intel Core Ultra Desktop processors that deliver the same efficiency as the previous generation at half the power.

Intel Corp. today debuted a new desktop processor series, the Core Ultra 200S, that features five chips made using three-dimensional packaging technology.

Intel has annouced its Core Ultra 200S gaming processors, the successor to the Intel Core i9-14900K that launched back in 2023. Instead of being pure gaming chips like their predecessors, though, this lineup, known as Raptor Lake-R, is working NPUs (Neural Processing Units) into the chips for the first time in a desktop processor.

Intel's new Core Ultra 200S desktop processors feature a new tiled architecture with major gains in efficient performance. - Page 2

Intel's new Core Ultra 200S desktop processors (Arrow Lake-S) feature integrated AI capabilities with a built-in NPU and more.

Five SKUs, all available for pre-order Intel has officially launched the new Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" desktop CPUs, with five SKUs that are now available for pre-order and will ship out on October 24th.

Intel's new Core Ultra 200S family follows the power-sipping lead of its "Lunar Lake" mobile chips and brings the chipmaker's AI ambitions to its desktop processors.

Intel is giving up on a feature that has been at the center of its desktop CPUs for decades with the release of Arrow Lake.