In June, Intel officially announced Lunar Lake, its next-generation notebook processor The company has yet to announce anything about a desktop version

According to a new leak about X discovered by GSMArena, the desktop processor will be named Arrow Lake and is expected to be unveiled on October 10

When Intel announced the Meteor Lake successor chip, they made some compelling changes to the CPU For one thing, the TOPs (Trillion Operations Per Second) of the new laptop processors was raised significantly from 115 to 48 Microsoft requires that Copilot + PCs meet at least 40 TOPs, which is why a number of ARM-based laptops were announced at Microsoft's Build event in May

Intel claimed that the new chips are at least 60% more battery efficient and that Lunar Lake will power at least 80 laptops

Interestingly, Intel did not adopt HyperThreading in the Lunar Lake processors For those who do not know, HyperThreading is a feature developed by Intel that allows a single processor to act like multiple virtual processors, and according to the Arrow Lake leaks, even the desktop version will not have HyperThreading It will not

However, looking at X-user jaykihn0's table, HyperThreading may not be necessary, as the more efficient cores look much more robust than previous Intel chips But contrary to Intel's claims, it looks to be a bit more of an energy monster, and we'll be testing it whenever we get a desktop with Arrow Lake on it

The Intel Core Ultra brand includes 14 models with a mix of performance and efficiency cores TDPs also range from 35W to 125W

All chips appear to feature Turbo Boost Technology 20 Several other aspects, including Thermal Velocity Boost, also appear to have been upgraded; we recommend looking at the X-Leaks table

Another leak shared by Extreme Tech found a GeekBench listing that appears to show an Arrow Lake benchmark; the GeekBench test shows a single-core score of 3,219 and a multi-core score of 19,433 The Arrow Lake processor tested The Arrow Lake processor tested is listed as a Core Ultra 7 265KF In contrast, the Raptor Lake Core i7-14700KF scores are 3,006 and 19,614

The lack of HyperThreading does not seem to hinder the new chip, but the boost seems negligible However, we do not know what exactly Intel can pull out of these chips, as they are supposed to be new sockets and tile-based designs

Also, to be cautious, this is one benchmark on one chip Not very exciting, but we will know more as more chipsets are tested and more benchmarks are revealed

Intel has not had a great summer, between the recent layoffs that destroyed its R&D budget and Qualcomm essentially owning the new AI PC market with its Snapdragon X chips

And that's before touching on the ongoing issues regarding the Raptor Lake chipset Presumably, next-generation Intel chips are less susceptible to the oxidation issues that affected the 13th and 14th generation Intel chips Despite the release of a fix last month, some Intel users are stuck with permanently damaged or degraded chips; time will tell if the Lunar/Arrow Lake chips will avoid these problems