Subj : Is Intel about to turn Arrow Lake CPUs around? Leak suggests big
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Nov 26 2024 14:30:04

Is Intel about to turn Arrow Lake CPUs around? Leak suggests big changes are 
coming for Core Ultra 200 chips

Date:
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:25:58 +0000

Description:
Rumored changes could pep up Intels ailing Core Ultra 200 range  but weve got 
a feeling AMD wont be overly worried (yet).

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leaker claims some major tweaks are close at hand for Arrow Lake We dont know 
their nature beyond being voltage-frequency related This could be the start 
of some big performance boosts for Arrow Lake 

Intels tweaks, which are incoming to help boost the performance of its 
recently released Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200S) processors  that rather 
disappointed upon their arrival  could be about to land. 

Or at least we might be about to witness the start of Intel fixing up these 
desktop CPUs. Were told by expert overclocker Skatterbench (whos affiliated 
with Asus, and regularly sets world records using the firms motherboards ) on 
X that Intel has some big changes coming in its next microcode update for 
Arrow Lake chips (add seasoning, as ever). Big changes coming to Arrow Lake 
VF behavior with new uCode  November 25, 2024 

These pertain to the VF behavior which means voltage-frequency, and as 
VideoCardz , which noticed this, pointed out, the overclocker likely already 
has access to the beta update. 

Hopefully, it wont be long before whatever tweaks and improvements are being 
introduced here come to all Core Ultra 200 CPU owners (though there will be a 
beta BIOS deployed by motherboard makers first, no doubt, before the full 
release). (Image credit: Intel) Analysis: A new chapter for Arrow Lake? 

So, the crux of the matter here is whether these changes are about delivering 
better performance for the Core Ultra 200S family, or perhaps more about 
fixing overclocking (as Skatterbench indicates later in that thread on X). 
Meaning these (rumored) tweaks could be more about, say, shoring up stability 
(especially for overclocking), rather than juicing up Arrow Lake CPUs with 
performance improvements. 

The expectation is that this has something to do with Robert Hallocks (VP of 
marketing at Intel) previous observation that Arrow Lakes disappointing 
performance (particularly with gaming) was due to multiple issues in Windows 
and the BIOS, and an accompanying promise that fixes are inbound for those 
problems . 

Is this upcoming microcode patch the start of those fixes? Quite possibly, 
but wed temper our expectations, as it sounds like Intel has a lot of work to 
do on this front. Remember, we were also promised a full audit of all the 
issues in play with Arrow Lakes missteps, so it seems like a thorny tangle of 
gremlins in the works, and were betting this is going to be a multi-step cure 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/is-intel-about-to-turn-arrow-lake-cpus
-around-leak-suggests-big-changes-are-coming-for-core-ultra-200-chips


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