Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
Can Intel compete in the budget CPU battle?
Intel’s new chiplet tech is actually produced mostly by Taiwanese foundry TSMC.
THE LAUNCH OF ARROW LAKE
marks a new chapter in Intel’s history. This is the first desktop processor in its ranks that isn’t made by Team Blue itself. The multi-tile design, first introduced with Meteor Lake in the mobile sector, is predominantly manufactured by TSMC. Only the base tile and packaging are handled by Intel.
The Core Ultra 5 245K (and the GPU-less 245KF) is currently the baby of the Arrow Lake line-up, and it’s basically a Core Ultra 9 285K with two P-cores and eight E-cores disabled. The clocks are a little lower, too, and there’s less L3 cache, all of which reduces the maximum power limit to 159W.