It's almost time for CES and as is tradition, Intel and AMD are anticipated to unveil their budget non-K / non-X family of processors in conjunction with affordable motherboards. Hardware data aggregator, momomo_us on X, has shared the box packaging of Intel's Arrow Lake non-K processors, expected to launch next month. The bulky design suggests the inclusion of a stock cooler, something missing from the K-lineup; not that you'd use a simple cooler with an unlocked chip anyway.
Going over the shared images, Intel is preparing a total of five different SKUs; the Core Ultra 9 285, Core Ultra 7 265/F, and the Core Ultra 5 245/F. Of course, these are just the 65W variants and their respective iGPU-less counterparts. Intel is also expected to announce the Arrow Lake T-lineup with a TDP of 35W. Rumored benchmarks show that the Core Ultra 9 285 beats the i9-14900K, at least in Geekbench. It's slightly disappointing this leak doesn't mention anything about the Core Ultra 3 200 series but they could also be slated for launch sometime later.
