Intel's new desktop Core Ultra 20S Series chips pack a punch -- and they arrive with dedicated NPUs for AI processing.

Intel introduced today its first Core Ultra desktop processors for AI PCs, the new Core Ultra 200S series family that will be available starting October 24.

The 14-core Ultra 5 245K and 245KF feature six performance cores for demanding applications and eight efficiency cores for power-sipping tasks, with a maximum power draw of 159W and up to 5.2 GHz in boost mode. The 245K and 245KF are equipped with 24MB of smart cache, 26MB of Level 2 cache, and an integrated four-core GPU, limited to 1.9 GHz.

Apart from a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU), the Intel Arrow Lake-S processors for desktops also offer significant reductions in power usage: Technology news

Arrow Lake, the code name for Intel's latest chip architecture, will debut in desktops and laptops by the end of this year. How imposing is it?

The Core Ultra 200S series is Intel’s first desktop processor to include a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Using the full compute power of its Arrow Lake chips, Intel provides 36 platform TOPs, supporting VNNI, DP4a, and NPU acceleration.

Intel has confirmed that its new Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake-S" desktop processors will be launching on October 10, with reviews and sales coming two weeks later on October 24.

Intel has just launched its Core Ultra 200S processors – the new generation for desktop PCs – and the company has informed us that laptop chips for this Arrow Lake family aren’t far away. In fact, the Arrow Lake notebook CPUs will arrive in Q1 2025,

CPUs bring Core Ultra features to desktops, with similar performance caveats. 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,

For multithreaded workloads, the Core Ultra 200S offers a 14% speed boost. Power consumption is up to 58% lower depending on the workload. The flagship chip in the Core Ultra 200S series is the Core Ultra 9 285K.