Intel Unveils Arrow Lake Mobile Series with Core Ultra 200hx and 200h Processors for Gaming Laptops

At the exciting CES in Las Vegas in 2025, Intel unveiled its Arrow Lake mobile processor series, which is set to shake up the laptop market. This series includes two main models: the Core Ultra 200H series, designed for everyday use in lightweight laptops, perfect for work, study, and light entertainment; and the Core Ultra 200HX series, aimed at gaming laptops for players who want the best gaming experience. The previously launched Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake processor continues to hold the title of battery life champion among Intel's laptop chips. However, the new Arrow Lake series doesn't quite meet Microsoft's minimum AI performance requirements for CoPilot+ PCs, so Lunar Lake remains the only Intel platform that supports CoPilot+.

The Core Ultra 200H series processors use the Lion Cove P-core and Skymont E-core architectures. Intel claims they are 15% faster in both single-thread and multi-thread tasks compared to the previous Meteor Lake Core Ultra 100H processors. They also come with Intel's Arc GPU, which has eight Xe LPG+ cores (except for the lowest model), boosting graphics performance by 15% over the previous generation. Although the built-in NPU can handle 11 TOPS in AI tasks, it falls short of Microsoft's 40+ TOPS requirement. However, the overall system AI performance is still impressive, with the GPU contributing up to 77 TOPS, bringing the total platform AI performance to 99 TOPS. The 200H series also supports faster memory speeds, up to DDR5-6400 and LPDDR5x-8400, and new CAMM2 modules, though the maximum supported memory capacity has decreased from 192GB to 96GB.

Intel plans to release the Core Ultra 200H series in early Q1 of 2025, followed by the Core Ultra 200HX series with discrete graphics at the end of Q1, aligning with the launch of new discrete GPUs. The 200HX series uses the same chip design as the Arrow Lake desktop chips, fitting into a smaller BGA package for laptops. Despite this, they offer top-notch performance and support overclocking, which is great for gamers. The flagship Core Ultra 9 285HX features eight P-cores and 16 E-cores, with P-cores boosting up to 5.4 GHz and E-cores reaching 2.8 GHz. This results in a 5% increase in single-thread performance and a 20% increase in multi-thread performance compared to the previous Raptor Lake Refresh models. The NPU performance of the 200HX series is 13.1 TOPS, and while it doesn't meet Microsoft's minimum requirement, the total system AI performance is 36 TOPS. These processors also support integrated Thunderbolt 4 (with Thunderbolt 5 support through a discrete chip), Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.1. Intel's new series of laptop chips aims to cover the entire laptop market, but the architectural details of the high-volume 200H series have not yet been disclosed.