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Intel Slashes Arrow Lake Prices Amid Tough Competition From AMD
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) launched its Arrow Lake family of desktop central processing units (CPUs), officially the Core Ultra 200 series, in late 2024. The company outsourced most of the manufacturing to TSMC, moved to a chiplet-based architecture, and managed to improve energy efficiency substantially, compared to its previous-generation chips. For productivity tasks, Arrow Lake performed well.However, there were two problems. First, Arrow Lake's gaming performance fell flat, losing to Intel's last-gen chips. Some software fixes have improved the situation, but for those looking to squeeze every last frame per second out of their gaming PC, Arrow Lake isn't the answer.Second, pricing was on the high side. Not only were Arrow Lake CPUs expensive on their own, but they also required a new motherboard, making all upgrade paths pricier.Continue reading
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) launched its Arrow Lake family of desktop central processing units (CPUs), officially the Core Ultra 200 series, in late 2024. The company outsourced most of the manufacturing to TSMC, moved to a chiplet-based architecture, and managed to improve energy efficiency substantially, compared to its previous-generation chips. For productivity tasks, Arrow Lake performed well.
However, there were two problems. First, Arrow Lake's gaming performance fell flat, losing to Intel's last-gen chips. Some software fixes have improved the situation, but for those looking to squeeze every last frame per second out of their gaming PC, Arrow Lake isn't the answer.
Second, pricing was on the high side. Not only were Arrow Lake CPUs expensive on their own, but they also required a new motherboard, making all upgrade paths pricier.
