Intel Core Ultra "Arrow Lake" Desktop Processor De-lidded

[N/A]

Motherboard future uncerain, 20A cancelled and the all nodes covered by frankenstein here. Fingers crossed 6+4 could still be monolithic.

That looks easy, AMD's 9000 series looks hard

And yet it broke one of the capacitors of junior here. (JNR is the gold letters insctription on the substrate)

I just still don't like the e-core/p-core thing. I wish 1. Intel will release Bartlett Lake, and/or 2. AMD will implement a similar tile-based design on Zen 6.

P or E wouldn't matter to me. Actually 1 p-core VS low power island of 4 e-cores, 990 pts VS 2660 CPUz, same die area 2.5 X performance.

 

[AusWolf]

P or E wouldn't matter to me. Actually 1 p-core VS low power island of 4 e-cores, 990 pts VS 2660 CPUz, same die area 2.5 X performance.

If you think about it, e-cores are very space-efficient, but not very power-efficient, at least in current (14th) generation. This wouldn't bother me much if 1. we weren't talking about magnitudes greater power consumption and heat production than on any AMD chip, and 2. it didn't require Windows 11, Thread Director, and other software shenanigans to work properly. AMD's mixed-CCD chips (7900X3D and 7950X3D) are a no-go for me for the same reason. KISS (keep it simple, stupid) is the way to go on a desktop PC, imo.

 

[SL2]

At least heat is concentrated around the middle of the package, which leaves you with more surface area to dissipate it.

Apparently not middle enough