On April 30, it was reported that Intel will launch Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake later this year will be classified as the second-generation Core Ultra, of which the former will return to the desktop high-performance market, at most 8P+16E 24 cores, but lose hyper-threading, that is, up to 24 cores and 24 threads.
Three K-series models have been known before, namely Core Ultra 9 290K, Core Ultra 7 270K, and Core Ultra 5 260K, which are expected to be 8+16 24 cores, 8+12 20 cores, and 6+8 14 cores respectively.
Now a "Core Ultra 5 240F" has been confirmed, targeting the low-end market, with the special feature that it will use chips in both 8+16 and 6+8 configurations, and the actual specifications are expected to be 6+4 10 cores.
In other words, if you use a native 8+16 chip, it needs to shield 2 large cores and 12 small cores.
As for whether there is a Core Ultra 3 series at the entry level, it is unknown for the time being, at least not the current generation of Core Ultra.
Of course, this is not the first and second time, and it is not uncommon, but the strange thing is that it is rumored that the 6+8 version of the manufacturing process is Intel 20A, and the 8+16 version is Intel 20A and TSMC 3nm!
At a previous pace, the Arrow Lake K series will be released this fall, and mainstream versions like the Core Ultra 5 240F will be available early next year.