Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs Delidded Ahead of Launch, Revealing New Tile Design

The upcoming Core Ultra 200S series showcases Intel's shift to a chiplet architecture, with benchmarks indicating mixed performance results.

Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs have been delidded by a hardware enthusiast, revealing a unique tiled architecture with six compartments, including compute, graphics, SoC, and I/O tiles.
The delidded images highlight Intel's use of multiple process nodes for different tiles, with the compute tile on TSMC's N3B node and others on N5P and N6 nodes.
The new LGA 1851 socket, exclusive to Arrow Lake, is larger and promises better thermal performance than previous generations.
Initial benchmarks for the Core Ultra 9 285K show underwhelming single-thread performance but strong multi-thread capabilities, with thermal issues noted during testing.
Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs are set to launch on October 24, with prices starting at $294, and will expand to high-end laptops in early 2025.