The launch of Arrow Lake marks a new chapter in Intel's history as it's essentially the first desktop processor in its ranks that isn't made by Team Blue itself. The multiple tile design, first introduced with Meteor Lake in the mobile sector, is predominantly manufactured by TSMC—only the base tile and packaging are handled by Intel.
That's not the only change on show here and we've covered the important changes in detail elsewhere. It's suffice to say that the new Core Ultra 200S series of CPUs is a new world for Intel as they are so different to previous desktop designs.
