The Intel Core Ultra 9 285, the current flagship CPU showcasing Intel's new Arrow Lake architecture marks the entry of a brave new world for Team Blue. A big slab of silicon, containing all the cores and sundry? Gone. Manufactured on the latest Intel process node? Also gone. Class-leading gaming performance? That's gone too, though Intel did say that would be the case.
In their place, you have the same use of chiplets/tiles that was first introduced with Meteor Lake. TSMC manufactures all of them, too, bar the base tile to which they're all attached. And quite remarkably, we now also have an Intel processor that uses less power than any equivalent AMD chip does in gaming.
