So, having spent the last couple of years completely confusing consumers with impenetrable CPU taxonomy that carries little hint of what the effective TDP for a given SoC will actually deliver, Intel is now doing the same to the OEMs! 😁 If Lunar Lake has TDPs from 17W to 30W and Arrow Lake will have traditional HX (+50W), H (c.45W) and U (15-28W) designations, how are OEMs supposed to choose which series to build their products around? Or maybe it's easier to just go all in on Zen 5? 😂
What I hope is that they don't burn out like what's happening with the Intel Core 13 and Core 14, and this Core 15 is coming out hastily, so I don't have much faith in it. If you want to buy a laptop or PC, either wait for Panther Lake, which will be all new, or for an AMD, which currently has AMD Zen 5 with its lower TDP, which has incredible performance and very low temperatures.
A Linux patch has revealed an important detail about Intel's Arrow Lake-H CPUs. It will come with Lion Cove, Skymont and Crestmont cores in one package.