Intel just opened preorders for its new CPUs, but the way it was done -- and the timing -- is pretty unexpected.

Intel quietly puts its Arrow Lake CPUs on pre-order. Right now, we don’t know too much about these chips, but we know that they will be powerful. The Intel Chinese account annou

Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs came out in October promising high performance at lower power levels, but reviews, including ours, noted surprisingly lackluster gaming performance. Tom Warren said of the Core Ultra 9 285K, “...in many titles, it provides worse performance than the 14th Gen chips it was designed to replace.”

As we await budget Arrow Lake chips next year, Intel China has initiated pre-orders for these processors ahead of their global rollout. The official account of Intel Consumer Products on Weibo announced JD as its partner for the pre-sale event,