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 says its top-tier processors in the recently launched Intel Core Ultra 200S CPUs (codenamed Arrow Lake) are verified to work with Intel Application Optimization (APO). This software ensures that your computer’s hardware resources are appropriately allocated to the current app and could improve gaming performance by up to 31%.