Intel Unveils Core Extremely 200H And 200HX Cell CPU Lineup To Turbocharge Laptops

As of final evening, “Intel Core Extremely 200 sequence” referred solely to the corporate’s wonderful Lunar Lake cell processors and in addition its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs. That’s now not the case, as as we speak at CES 2025, Intel launched the remainder of the Core Extremely 200 sequence in addition to a couple of different notable CPUs.

The overwhelming majority of the bulletins are for laptops, so we’ll begin with these. The Core Extremely 200H sequence CPUs are “Arrow Lake” within the sense that they use the identical Lion Cove P-core structure paired with Skymont E-cores, however there is a truthful few modifications right here from the desktop elements. Before everything is a giant drop in TDP, as you’d count on.

Intel is not saying a lot in regards to the NPUs on these elements, although they do embrace identical. That is in all probability as a result of their NPUs aren’t based mostly on the quick NPU4 structure from Lunar Lake and as an alternative include the slower NPU from Meteor Lake and desktop Arrow Lake. Nonetheless, they’re nonetheless robust at AI due to the return of XMX items to their built-in “Xe-LPG+” GPU, permitting the top-end mannequin to ship 77 TOPS from GPU compute alone.

Should you’re not glad with 16 CPU cores, you can all the time go together with a Core Extremely 200HX. These elements implement the Arrow Lake-S silicon in cell kind, which means that they prime out at a full 24 cores: eight Lion Cove P-cores and 16 Skymont E-cores. You additionally get a 13 TOPS NPU and a comparatively meager Arc GPU, though as regular, Intel particularly factors out that these chips are meant for pairing with dGPUs.

The story right here is mainly the identical as with desktop Arrow Lake, though clock charges do take a success as anticipated given the cell kind issue. Intel describes these elements as having a 55W base energy with a 160W most turbo energy; we’re to do some battery checks with them as Arrow Lake was fairly environment friendly on the desktop when it wasn’t being goosed with energy to compete with >200W last-gen chips.

If battery life is a giant concern to you, you will be happy to listen to that Intel is bringing alongside a handful of Core Extremely 200U processors. For these taking part in alongside at house, “U” refers to ultra-low energy chips designed for optimum battery life in power-constrained conditions. Similar to the Core Extremely 100U chips, these elements have two P-cores and eight E-cores, in addition to the identical two LP E-Cores you will discover on the Core Extremely 200H elements.

Intel actually did not have a lot to say about these, and which may be as a result of they’re a minimum of partly re-heated Meteor Lake silicon. We are saying that due to a couple of particular particulars: the 2 P-cores on these elements seem to have Hyper-Threading enabled, they usually additionally do not get the replace to Xe-LPG+ graphics structure that the Extremely 200H elements acquired. The specs are practically similar to the Core Extremely 100U chips, so these could also be refreshed somewhat than brand-new.

Intel notes that programs with all of those chips can be arriving in Q1 alongside machines with the “non-Ok” Core Extremely 200S sequence CPUs. So far as the latter goes, although, the corporate didn’t present us with any info, not even a listing of fashions. We heard again in November that there can be Core Extremely 9 285s, Core Extremely 7 265s, and Core Extremely 5 225s, however that is all pretty speculative.

That is not the one fascinating desktop CPUs that Intel is vaguely launching, although. The corporate’s edge computing division can be asserting the launch of “Core 200” sequence processors. These appear to primarily be re-refreshed Raptor Lake Refresh chips, however there’s additionally the enigmatic Bartlett Lake CPUs. We first heard about Bartlett Lake manner again in February of final yr, and Intel has been mum on the subject this complete time.

Intel tells us that every little thing launched as we speak can be accessible within the first half of the yr, with Core Extremely 200H and 200U-based machines transport in February. In the meantime, the 35-watt and 65-watt desktop CPUs are already transport out and needs to be accessible in each OEM programs and retail field kind on January thirteenth.