Intel’s Core i3 Successor Coming To Arrow Lake Family, Core Ultra 3 With 8 Cores

Intel's Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs will reportedly feature entry-level successors to the Core i3 series, the Core Ultra 3 with up to 8 cores.

Intel Arrow Lake-S CPUs Will Mark The End of Quad-Core Chips As Core Ultra 3 Expected To Offer Up To 8 Cores, Replacing Core i3 Entry-Level Series

The Arrow Lake S "Core Ultra 200" Desktop CPU lineup is around the corner and while Intel is expected to announce the lineup on 10th October, there are no official talks on the lower-end SKUs. Here, we are specifically talking about the Core Ultra 3 series, which seems to be missing from most reports and leaks. Surprisingly, there is one leak that does talk about the Core Ultra 3 lineup but it goes back to the second week of August. The rumor mentioned that Arrow Lake Core i3 replacements would still retain the Raptor Lake architecture but it looks like the changes will be more drastic than previously anticipated.

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X user, @OneRaichu has previously posted about an entry-level processor in the Core Ultra 3 lineup on the 9th of August. Raichu also said that Intel will release an '8-core' Ultra 3 processor, which is supposedly much stronger than the 14th Gen Core i3 processors. This 8-core configuration will most likely be divided into 4 performance and 4 efficient cores. Currently, the fastest Core i3s only feature 4 cores at max and are the Core i3 14100 and its F variant without any iGPU, which belong to the Raptor Lake Refresh family.

Hence, the upcoming Core Ultra 3 processor is the first-ever octa-core (8-Core) i3/Ultra 3-series CPU, which will have so many cores. The i3 14100/F offers 4 cores and 8 threads config, but the cores are only Performance cores and there are no efficient cores available. This is contrary to the Core i5s, i7s, and i9s that provide a proper Hybrid architecture featuring both types of cores. The Arrow Lake S also carries the same hybrid architecture but with newer Golden