Intel Core Ultra 200H notebook CPUs will arrive at the start of 2025, along with HX chips to seriously beef up gaming laptops

Arrow Lake mobile processors look formidable

11 Oct 2024, 11:40 · TechRadar

News By Darren Allan published 11 October 2024

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Intel has just launched its Core Ultra 200S processors – the new generation for desktop PCs – and the company has informed us that laptop chips for this Arrow Lake family aren’t far away.

In fact, the Arrow Lake notebook CPUs will arrive in Q1 2025, in next-gen laptops, specifically with Core Ultra 200H and Core Ultra 200HX flavors, which are mainstream and enthusiast (very powerful) processors respectively.

These models will sit alongside Lunar Lake laptop (Core Ultra 200V) chips which have recently been sprung on the market (impressing a good many folks for one reason or another).

Core Ultra 200H chips will top out at 14-cores, with the flagship sporting 6 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. As for Core Ultra 200HX, that will run up to 24-cores with 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores.

Expect to see new laptops packing Arrow Lake CPUs at CES 2025 (where we might also get Nvidia’s next-gen notebook GPUs, and other mobile goodies besides).

Analysis: Clearing up any CPU confusion

Confused about how Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake laptop silicon fits together, and what’s different? Let’s outline the main differences between the two, and indeed between the H and HX takes on Arrow Lake.

Lunar Lake majors in power-efficiency and is designed for thin-and-light premium laptops, whereas Arrow Lake will offer more in the way of performance and raw grunt, particularly with those top-end HX CPUs. (Although Arrow Lake is still very efficient compared to Raptor Lake Refresh, of course, as we heard all about at the desktop launch yesterday).

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