If the rumours are true, then Intel Core Ultra 200-series CPUs and matching Z890 motherboards are finally launching later this month.

Intel’s Lunar Lake processors have caused quite a stir since the mobile chips were launched, and a fresh dive into the capabilities of these CPUs in the world of gaming handhelds won’t do the range any harm in terms of all the positive chatter.

A Canadian tech retailer lists multiple new Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake CPUs, nearly a month before the new processors are planned to launch.

We tested the new Asus Zenbook S14 with the Core Ultra 9 288V processor, and surprisingly found that the Core Ultra 9 is slower than the Ultra 7 model in threaded workloads.

Lunar Lake also has a quad-core cluster of Skymont-based E-cores, and the die annotation indicates that the entire cluster is just a little larger than a single Lion Cove core. Th