Leaker Jaykihn has provided more leaks on what’s in store from Intel regarding its upcoming Core Ultra (and Core) 200 series for laptops, with a full list of SKUs to boot. However, there’s some bad news: some chips are Arrow Lake, while others are still using Raptor Lake – which is a fairly old architecture by now.
Core Ultra 200H Series
The Core Ultra 200H series will be the ones powered by the new Arrow Lake architecture, which is Intel’s current latest-and-greatest. The leak lists five models, starting with 285H, followed by 265H, 255H, 235H and 225H. The 285H is most likely a Core Ultra 9 part, as it once again is the sole model of the lineup with 45W TDP – just like the Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra 9 185H.
While sharing similar names as the 285K, the CU9 285H will feature 6P+8E+2LPE according to the leak, totaling 16 cores and 16 threads as Arrow Lake no longer features Hyper-threading. The Core Ultra 7 parts (265H, 255H) feature the same core count as well, while the Core Ultra 5 235H/225H has two less P-cores to work with.
Core 200H/U Series
Take the “Ultra” name off and you end up with Core 200 series, which is a third(!) refresh of the Raptor Lake architecture that was first debuted back in 2022. Here, a total of five H-series SKUs and two U-series SKUs are listed, but they aren’t just straight-up rebrands – the top tier Core 7 270H has a +400MHz clock speed bump over the Core i9-13900H, the best 45W-class laptop chip Team Blue has to offer today (which has no 14th Gen equivalents, surprisingly).
On the flip side, you have the Core 200U series that looks like a simple rebrand of the Core 100U series with no changes on paper. Both the 250U and 220U correspond with their Core Series 1 counterparts, Core 7 150U and Core 5 120U, respectively.
So, there are some takeaways here: one, Intel is clearly following AMD’s previous strategy of combining multiple architectures into one single product line (but the chipmaker has since moved on to ride on the AI hype train when they once again rebranded its chip as Ryzen AI 300 series), and two, the names may get confusing for some. Based on the known SKUs, it’s safe to say there are two ways to differentiate the old and new – either by looking for the “Ultra” branding, or look at the final number in the processor model.
Source: Videocardz (1,2) / Jaykihn (1,2)
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Pokdepinion: Hopefully the branding is clear enough to differentiate between the two.
