Intel Core Ultra CPUs May Feature Lower Clock Speeds to Avoid Stability Issues

[Tsing]

Arrow Lake-S, Intel's upcoming generation of "Core Ultra" desktop CPUs, may serve as a new challenge for Intel's marketing department, according to new rumors shared on China's Weibo forums recently that suggest the new flagship, the Core Ultra 9 285K, will launch with lower clock speeds to avoid the stability issues that some 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core users have been complaining about over the last few months.

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[Grimlakin]

You mean you can't just stress materials more and more until they break and call that a good product? Who would have thunk it.

Now they need to improve IPC to improve performance due to the limitations of materials. Something they should have been doing all along rather than just slapping a new name and more MHZ on the next gen of SOC's and not actually improving IPC.