In addition to laptops, there was also more choice for the desktop in the form of the multiplier-locked and low-current models of the Core Ultra 200S series.
Along with other giants, Intel has also held its own keynote presentation at the CES 2025 trade fair. Michelle Johnston Holthaus, one of the company’s interim CEOs, announced at the event, among other things, a number of new processors for desktops and laptops.
Intel’s new notebook-oriented Core Ultra 200H and 200HX processors are based on the Arrow Lake architecture and are placed on the market next to and above the Core Ultra 200V processors of the Lunar Lake architecture. Although the processors have an AI accelerator, the older NPU 3 does not meet Microsoft’s CoPilot+ requirements, unlike Lunar Lake’s NPU 4.
The processors of the Core Ultra 200HX series are practically already familiar from the desktop, as they are the same chips adapted to a mobile format. At best, the processors have 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores, each of which executes one thread at the same time. There is also a 4-core Xe-LPG architecture GPU and an NPU 3 artificial intelligence accelerator. You can find the most relevant information about the processors in the slide above.
Core Ultra 200H series processors are instead based on a completely new circuit. The processors have at best 6 P-cores, 8 E-cores and 2 LP-E cores. The cores are based on the Lion Cove and Skymont architectures known from other Arrow Lakes. The GPU has been updated to the Xe-LPG+ architecture, which is still the first generation, but unlike other integrated Alchemists, also includes XMX units. A maximum of 8 Xe cores are used, which justifies the use of the Arc name. The artificial intelligence accelerator is the old familiar NPU 3. You can find the most relevant information about the processors in the slide above.
The very low-power processors of the Core Ultra 200U series were also released under the name Arrow Lake, although in reality the Redwood Cove and Crestmont cores known from Meteor Lake are used instead of Lion Cove and Skymont. The processors invariably have 2 P-cores, 8 E-cores and 2 LP-E cores. Their graphics controller is based on the Xe-LPG architecture, meaning that the XMX units are not used. The 200U series also includes NPU 3. You can find the most relevant technical information about the new products in the slide above.
As expected, the multiplier-locked and low-current versions of the Arrrow Lake-S version arrived on the desktop, and they do not differ in their technical characteristics from the non-multiplier-locked versions.
Source: Intel
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