An enthusiast removed the cover from the Intel Arrow Lake-S processor, showing all its crystals

Intel’s new Arrow Lake-S series chip was already shown without a cover in an earlier leak from MSI. However, enthusiast @Madness727 personally scalped the processor and shared photos of its chiplets without any glue residue around them and in higher quality.

Image Source: X / @Madness727

Photos confirm that Intel desktop processors no longer use a monolithic die design. Instead, they are equipped with several chiplets (tiles), but two of these tiles are dummies. The largest chiplet contains the processor’s processing cores (up to 8 Lion Cove cores and up to 16 Skymont cores). The second largest is the SoC chiplet. There is also a chiplet with integrated graphics and an input/output chiplet (I/O die).

The enthusiast did not specify which processor model crystals from the Arrow Lake-S series are shown in the photographs. However, all five upcoming Core Ultra 200K/KF models use the same crystals, which differ only in the number of cores used and the frequency.

To date, Intel has not yet officially confirmed plans to release Arrow Lake-S models without the K/KF suffixes in the name. However, these processors are expected early next year if the latest rumors are to be believed.