Intel's desktop platforms will continue to use a chipset that's totally separate from the CPU package, unlike its laptop chips, which combine a CPU/GPU/chipset. The new 800-series chipsets can support "up to" 24 PCIe 4.0 lanes, which can be used for M.2 SSDs and various ports depending on how your motherboard maker decides to use them.

Well, with its new generation of desktop CPUs, Intel backpedals on just how much NPU you really need -- and implicitly conveys how unimportant a Copilot Plus PC really is. The Core Ultra 200K overclockable processors are geared to gamers and creators (formerly codenamed Arrow Lake-S and now a subset of the Core Ultra 200S generation),

Intel announced the first five models of its Arrow Lake desktop processors, otherwise known as the Core Ultra 200S series, with prices ranging from the $294 14-core Core Ultra 5 245KF to the flagship $589 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K.