At the Lenovo Tech World 2024

Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger was a special guest at the Lenovo Tech World 2024, showing off Intel's next-generation Panther Lake mobile processor.

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. The new Arrow Lake architecture brings Lion Cove P-cores, Skymont E-cores, Xe-LPG GPU, and NPU3, all neatly stacked in tiles. In addition, Intel's Z890 motherboards are also launched and these are available as well.

Arrow Lake on 20A to be manufactured by external partners

Intel has announced it is shifting its production focus on the 18A manufacturing process, ending its 20A production plans, and pushing Arrow Lake manufacturing to "external partners".

Not an improvement really

Early benchmarks for Intel’s coming Arrow Lake seem to show that it can only offer a four per cent improvement over Raptor Lake

But Chipzilla walks away from Core Ultra 9 F CPUs

Recent leaks suggest that Intel's product strategy is shifting. They indicate that the company will not release any Core Ultra 9 F CPUs.

Z890 motherboards on the list

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn suggesting that overclocking of  Chipzilla's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop processors will only be officially supported on the top-tier Z890 motherboards.

Shown to partners

Intel is organising a series of events for distributors and board partners to present and discuss its forthcoming LGA-1851 platform. It has revealed a few things it is not telling the great unwashed yet.

Computex 2024: Plenty of Intel Z890 motherboards at the Computex 2024 show floor

While Intel did not confirm the official launch date of the upcoming Arrow Lake-S CPUs, it has now reported that these Core Ultra 200 desktop chips could launch in October. There were plenty of Intel next-gen chipset motherboards at the Computex 2024 show floor and some motherboard makers have even revealed the Z890 name.

Lunar Lake for mobiles coming as well

During its CES 2024 presentation, Intel's EVP and GM of client computing group (CCG), Michelle Johnston Holthaus, briefly discussed the next generation Arrow Lake for desktops and Lunar Lake for laptop chips and confirmed they are launching in 2024.

According to a leaked roadmap

An alleged Intel roadmap that has recently leaked online shows that Intel could have scrapped a specific Meteor Lake-S 6P+8E SKU, giving credit to earlier rumors that it has been canceled and replaced by an Arrow Lake CPU with the same configuration.