It's fair to say that all of us in the PC Gamer office were somewhat disappointed with Intel's 14th generation of desktop Core CPUs. Fast as you could possibly want, sure, but only a few percent better than the previous gen, and still just as power hungry and hot as ever. It was to be expected, though, considering that it wasn't a new architecture. What we're all waiting for is to see what the real successor, Arrow Lake, will be like and the first hints of it have come to light: Basically, it's like a Raptor-like version of Meteor Lake. Oh.
Well, that's according to a relatively old Intel document, leaked on X (via Wccftech). It provides some details on a pre-alpha Arrow Lake (ARL-S) processor, plus the motherboard socket and chipset it will use. The very fact that it's pre-alpha means that it's a very early engineering sample, which is why the document states that the sample question should only be used with the P-cores disabled!
