It’s been a protracted process but Intel has finally officially unveiled its new Intel Core Ultra CPUs powered by its new Intel Meteor Lake architecture. Along with a new and complex hybrid chip design, the new processors promise to deliver a big boost in onboard graphics performance. They also add in dedicated AI cores and new extra low power cores to ensure laptops and other mobile devices can do more for longer when running on battery power.

While packed with new technology, these CPUs won’t be candidates for our best CPU for gaming guide, as they’re currently for laptop and mobile use only – you can’t buy them as a standalone upgrade. Indeed, Intel is completely skipping adding a range of desktop CPUs using the Intel Meteor Lake architecture. Instead, it will be in late 2024 that we expect to see a brand new Intel Arrow Lake architecture powering a brand-new range of desktop CPUs – in the meantime you’ll have to make do with the fast but power-hungry Intel 14th-gen chips, such as the Intel Core i5-14600K.

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