For the last several years, every new generation from Intel has felt like a make-or-break moment. Now, with , the stakes are even higher. Intel is facing unprecedented financial troubles, and although it still makes some of the ,

Intel is releasing an inaugural batch of five Arrow Lake CPUs to start, with core counts ranging from 14-24 and speeds from 5.2-5.7 GHz. They all have onboard NPUs capable of 13 TOPS, and most have 4-core onboard GPUs.

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.