Desktop Intel Meteor Lake MTL-S apparently tops out at Core i5 SKUs while Arrow Lake ARL-S could feature up to Core i9 CPUs

[Redaktion]

Intel is reportedly launching the Meteor Lake processors for laptops by October of this year while the desktop MTL-S CPUs could be slated for H1 2024. According to a slide recently shared by leaker Bionic_squash on Twitter, the desktop Intel MTL-S could only go up to Core i5 CPUs with the ARL-S Core i9 chips serving as the true top end.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Desktop-Intel-Meteor-Lake-MTL-S-apparently-tops-out-at-Core-i5-SKUs-while-Arrow-Lake-ARL-S-could-feature-up-to-Core-i9-CPUs.709900.0.html

[Barron]

Intel is still stuck on 8 cores. The e cores are useless for anything other than low priority background tasks.