Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs throttle PCIe 5.0 SSD speeds, tests reveal

Editor's take: It's no secret that Intel is in a very tight spot right now. The company that invented the microprocessor doesn't seem to understand how to make great products anymore, and users are suffering significant performance issues as a consequence. Intel changed its approach to silicon manufacturing with Meteor Lake CPUs, moving from a monolithic approach to a disaggregated, tile-based design. However, the significant technology switch is clearly providing a headache or two; reviewers and power users can't stop discovering new performance issues affecting Chipzilla's latest Core Ultra processors. The Arrow Lake CPUs, which Intel introduced on October 24, 2024, under the Core Ultra Series 2 brand, proved to be slower than Raptor Lake processors (Core i9-14900K). They are also much slower than the 9800X3D, which is why AMD sales are soaring right now. But wait, there's more: Intel Core Ultra 200 CPUs are even slower when it comes to driving the fastest SSD units available on th ... Read full article.