New Intel Core Ultra gaming CPUs rumored to boost clock speeds, arrive this year

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Intel will launch a refreshed lineup of its Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs later this year, with the chips based on a refreshed variant of the Intel Arrow Lake architecture that powers its current flagship gaming CPUs, according to a new report. These so-called Intel Arrow Lake refresh chips are expected to come with increases in clock speed as well as AI number crunching, for modest all-around gains in performance.The new Intel CPU lineup could help bolster the company's efforts to attract gaming PC users to once again buy its chips, after several years of AMD's X3D CPUs proving dominant in gaming performance and topping our best gaming CPU charts. However, the new report also suggests the performance gains will be modest, so this is far from a nailed-on certainty. Continue reading New Intel Core Ultra gaming CPUs rumored to boost clock speeds, arrive this yearMORE FROM PCGAMESN: Intel Core Ultra 7 265K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review