Arrow Lake is an absolute disaster, going by reviews. Stability and inconsistency issues, lackluster performance in most applications, efficiency is a mixed bag as I'm not sure N3B is really quite as suited for high clock speeds as Intel's more mature nodes can be.
It's so bad that I fear people will take the wrong lesson and start talking about Zen 5 as if it isn't actually the big disappointment is still is. Seems overall, consumers are just getting gut kicked for this generation of CPU's, and with likely no reprieve til 2026.
Will probably take some time before the blame gets properly tracked down for where Arrow Lake went wrong, but I also expect that there's gonna be plenty of pointing to the tile package design and honestly, that's easily gonna be my guess as to a big chunk of the problems here. I've been very critical of Intel's tile strategy for a while now, purely on the basis of unneeded complexity and cost with minimal upside in terms of reuse or scalability. And now if there's further issues relating to getting it to work well with Windows and performance issues, it might well look like one of the worst decisions they've made in a long time. And it was a decision. There was nothing keeping them from simply sticking with simple, monolithic designs other than their own hubris. Or heck, I wouldn't have blamed them at all if they straight up just copied AMD's simple and clever chiplet strategy.
I just have to imagine 8P Lion Cove + 16E Skymont on a monolithic Intel 3 process would have been so much better for Intel all round.