> in a couple of months Intel will launch Arrow Lake S, which will have a very close single-thread performance to Zen 5

Will they? Intel Innovation event was postponed "until 2025"[1], so I assumed there is not going to be any big launch like that in 2024, anymore? Arrow Lake S was supposed to debut at Intel Innovation event in September [2]

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/events/on-event-seri...

[2] https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-says-raptor-lake-microcode...