Black Friday exposes just how badly the new CPUs are struggling

Troubled Chipzilla’s Core Ultra 200 series has seen its prices nearly halved since launch, a sign of how little love the Arrow Lake chips are getting. Amazon’s Black Friday sale pushed them to fresh lows, and some models now sell for barely half their original tags.

Reviews and launch two weeks later

Intel has confirmed that it will officially announce Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU series on October 10th, with availability and reviews scheduled for October 24th.