Intel fixes 295K typo on it’s website, no Special Edition ARL-S CPU
No Special Edition for us... Unless
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Intel recently posted on its website regarding the 15th-generation Arrow Lake CPUs. In a section about heatsinks, it listed the 295K alongside the 265K and the 245 K. Naturally, the industry went wild for a short time, speculating on what the latest “special edition” CPU could be. However, Intel has since changed the typo to “285K,” which makes more sense as that was excluded from the original line-up.
VideoCardz reported on this first, and they stated that this could be a typo. Here’s the original post made by Intel:
As you can see, it very clearly reads 295K, the typo has now been fixed and reads correctly. Oh, in case you didn’t know, your Core Ultra CPU will not come with a box. I think we missed the whole point of this post that Intel made.
This got us thinking, what would a KS CPU look like on the upcoming Core Ultra series of processors?
Will Intel bring a “KS” CPU to the Core Ultra lineup?
It’s unlikely to be named a “KS” CPU, although it could be, this is just the name we are familiar with. Intel hasn’t made any official announcements regarding the potential for a KS CPU emerging from the 14th generation, but that’s usually how the story goes.
We’re assuming that, if a special edition CPU was to be released, it would have a higher boost clock speed and a higher TDP, that’s about all the 14900KS offered over the base 14900K. Recent KS CPUs had a TDP of 150W, also slightly higher than the non-KS counterpart.
If we take a brief look at the history of KS CPUs, we’ll see that none of them were released alongside their non-KS brothers and sisters.
Special Edition SKU
- Core i9-12900KS: MSRP $739 – April 5th, 2022
- Core i9-13900KS: MSRP $699 – January 12th, 2023
- Core i9-14900KS: MSRP $699 – March 14th, 2024
All of the KS CPUs had the same amount of cores and threads as the flagships at the time, they just shipped with higher clock speeds and higher TDPs. This is likely what Intel would offer if we were to get a special edition on Arrow Lake – Given that the 285K already seems like a loaded SKU in terms of cores.
