Intel Arrow Lake-S processor is being sold in China, is it real?

AMD is putting a lot of pressure on Intel to release processors with more cores and speeds up to 6 GHz to beat its rival. Unlike AMD, Intel releases a new generation of processors every year, but in some cases the improvements are so small that you end up relying on raw power and increased power consumption to win. Intel is still a long way off
Arrow Lake S enter the market, but
China These processors have already begun to be sold as engineering samples. at a very economical pricebut of course you can’t buy a motherboard compatible with this socket.

As we’ve said many times before, the launch of Intel Core 14 a few months ago was quite disappointing. These are processors that do not bring anything significant and are not worth buying if we have the cheaper Core 13. This is because these processors Rephrasing Lake Raptor

, because the Core 15 processor will bring something new and innovative to the PC. This is Intel Arrow Lake, details and leaks about which we have known for more than a year.

The Intel Arrow Lake-S processor is being put up for sale in China for just $14.

Unlike other cases, little was known about Arrow Lake in terms of technical specifications and performance. This one appeared a couple of months ago Processor with 24 cores at 3 GHz without Hyper-Threading, so we’re faced with a clear example of a design that still doesn’t deliver the ultimate performance. Speaking of which, we have a Chinese seller who claims to have several engineering samples of Arrow Lake-S processors that are compatible with the socket.
LGA 1851.

If you see the image and it sounds familiar, it’s exactly the same one we saw when the Meteor Lake PC processor was leaked, which ultimately wasn’t going to go on sale after Intel canceled it. We are left in doubt as to whether this is actually a processor compatible with the new socket or if this is indeed the case.
LGA 1700 compatible

as I wanted to demonstrate. Yes, the sale price of just $14 makes it interesting for potential buyers.

We don’t know any information about this processor for LGA 1851, but it can run on LGA 1700.

We can’t get any more details about this processor other than the fact that it has “NA”, “QDF4” And
“D234” Well, the rest is deliberately hidden. So in theory this is an engineering sample of Arrow Lake-S, but of course we can’t know for sure either and it could just be a Meteor Lake desktop prototype that never officially arrives. Considering
there are no performance tests or anything that would allow us to identify and certify itThe truth is that this is a real mystery. In fact, even almost a year after the photo, it doesn’t look like this processor has appeared in benchmarks like Geekbench where we see others.

Now it remains to be seen whether anyone will want to buy an Intel Arrow Lake-S processor from China like this, and at $14 we’re sure many of them will want to buy it out of sheer curiosity. As for Arrow Lake, Intel is expected to release three variants, the top of the line will have 8 P-cores and 16 E-coresthen we will have one with 6 P-cores and 16 E-cores and finally one with 6 P-cores and 8 E-cores.