Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs might be slower but this could help fix a major issue

Normally CPU performance increases with newer generations but, according to a new leak, the upcoming Intel chips may be going against the grain.

A new leak reveals that the Intel Arrow Lake desktop lineup may have a clock speed of up to 5.5 GHz, much lower than its current flagship Intel Core i9-14900KS which can reach up to 6.20 GHz, according to tech leaker MebiuW on Weibo (reported on by Wccftech). Apparently, the upcoming flagship Core 9 Ultra 285K could face a potential drop of 700MHz compared to its predecessor, which is rather large.

Of course, if Intel’s architectural improvements are large enough, then clock speed may not be nearly as important as in past generations. But MebiuW has a response to that proposal and it doesn’t look good for Intel if true. It seems that the single-core performance of the 285K might ...