Well, with its new generation of desktop CPUs, Intel backpedals on just how much NPU you really need -- and implicitly conveys how unimportant a Copilot Plus PC really is. The Core Ultra 200K overclockable processors are geared to gamers and creators (formerly codenamed Arrow Lake-S and now a subset of the Core Ultra 200S generation),

It's a slightly confusing generational crossover since Core Ultra 100 never hit desktops, but Intel is sticking with the Series 2 moniker for its new Arrow Lake-S processors. Core Ultra 200S Series chips feature a similarly "intense focus" on being the "most efficient family of x86 processors ever" as their codenamed Lunar Lake mobile counterparts,