Intel's 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021's 12th-gen Core processors. The new Core Ultra CPUs (and their underlying architectural changes) were exclusive to laptops.

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),

The new processor series, previously known by its codename, Intel Arrow Lake, has been entirely rearchitected to focus on efficiency and performance-per-watt and features the same multi-module die architecture as Intel Meteor Lake laptop processors.