Intels chief financial officer, David Zinsner, has made a rare confession, admitting that Intel kind of fumbled the football on the desktop side, when referring to the companys current Arrow Lake gaming CPUs at the Deutsche Bank 2025 Technology Conference. The admission comes as AMD swallows Intels desktop CPU market share at an alarming rate, but Zinsner says hes confident that forthcoming Intel Nova Lake CPUs will address this situation.AMD is currently giving Intel a hard time on our best gaming CPU guide, where we currently dont recommend any of Intels new Arrow Lake CPUs. In the benchmarks for my Core Ultra 7 265K review, I found a chip that did a good job of addressing the high temperatures and power draw of Intels previous Raptor Lake chips, but which struggled to keep up with Intels older CPUs, let alone the latest AMD CPUs with 3D V-cache, in games, and in some cases the performance drop-off was huge. My recent tests of the same chip in our Alienware Aurora R16 review show that AMDs X3D chips still have the edge here as well. Continue reading Intel just admitted it "fumbled the football" on its Arrow Lake gaming CPUsMORE FROM PCGAMESN: Intel Core Ultra 7 265K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review