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The beans were spilled regarding Intel’s Core 200 family of CPUs as data aggregator momomo_us detailed the entire family in a series of tweets on X. The data is missing on important details like core counts, but most of that information is covered inside. earlier. On that note, the leak includes store order codes indicating that these CPUs are already in the hands of OEMs as they prepare their upcoming laptops.
To recap, Intel’s Core 200 CPUs are divided into Ultra and non-Ultra SKUs. The Core 200 non-Ultra family arrives as a Raptor Lake refresh on budget laptops, similar to the latest-gen Core 100 offerings. Similarly, Core 200 Ultra CPUs get the latest Arrow Lake architecture – divided across H and HX suffixes. A word of warning; the Core Ultra 200U processors are rumored to be a refresh of Meteor Lake and not Arrow Lake, ported to Intel 3. It gets even more confusing as the leaks say the Core 200H family may include LPE cores; absent from the desktop Arrow Lake-S and flagship-grade mobile Arrow Lake-HX CPUs.
On the graphics side of things, the Core Ultra 200 H/HX CPUs will use the Xe-LPG+ (Alchemist+) architecture with XMX cores, however, the Core Ultra 200U series is expected to stick with Xe-LPG as it is based on Meteor. Lake – so you won’t be able to use Intel’s latest XeSS Frame Generation technology with these processors.
With these nuances aside, today’s leak completes the picture of Intel’s Core 200 line as we look at the list of 22 upcoming mobile processors from Intel. We decided to combine the already-released HX series to give you a clearer picture.
Considering the big differences between each count – going beyond simple core count and clock speed differences – users should be very careful when choosing a laptop next year. And it’s not just Intel, AMD is revamping its existing offerings by re-releasing them under the “Ryzen AI 300” branding.
However, we expect both of these processors to be announced at CES next month alongside the budget 65W and 35W Arrow Lake processors. AMD will also release the Ryzen Z2 series, Krackan Point, and Strix Halo, alongside the next-gen RDNA 4 Radeon RX 8000 GPUs. Laptops with these processors should see availability in the coming weeks.