Intel Debuts New Arrow Lake Chips for Gaming Laptops

After a tumultuous 2024, Intel still has a lot to do if it wants to get back to its peak. The chip maker is starting the new year with a slew of new chips designed for enterprise and gaming laptops, including the new 200H and 200HX series. In addition, Intel said it would make up for Arrow Lake’s initial disappointing gaming performance with the new Ultra 200S series.

In addition to the new chips, Team Blue finally revealed which PCs will be powered by Intel’s high-end chips Yuehu SKUa business-oriented PC that debuted during CES this week. The chip maker will launch several new laptop and desktop CPUs early this year, some of which are aimed at enthusiast or business laptops.

Intel’s Lunar Lake has proven to be a reliable chipset in modern laptops. However, the picture is slightly different when compared to the company’s Arrow Lake desktop chipsets (and even Intel’s previous 14th-gen chipsets). we are in our Origin Neuron 3500X PC review. That’s where the Intel Core Ultra 200HX and 200S series come in.

Laptops still seem to be Intel’s top priority. The 200H Arrow Lake series promises to be the leader in mobile computers. There’s the Intel Core Ultra 5 235H, Ultra 7 265H and the top-of-the-line Ultra 9 285H. Both Ultra 7 and Ultra 9 feature 16-core configurations, but the higher-end chip includes 6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 LPE (low power efficiency) cores.

The new HX 200HX CPU series for the mobile workstation crowd ranges from Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX to Ultra 9 285HX. The high-end chip adopts an 8-performance core and 16-efficiency core layout. The chip also includes four Xe graphics cores, the same as the 200V series. These chips may not operate as efficiently as desktop chips, but they may provide more functionality for PCs with or without a discrete GPU for graphics or gaming functions.

We need to understand what they are doing in terms of power consumption. According to Intel, the high-performance 200H runs between 28W and 45W, while the 200HX requires 55W. I’m very interested to see how the 200H laptop can handle more intensive tasks in a slim body without overheating. As for the 200HX’s performance, we wanted to compare the 285HX to other current champions like the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.

Moon Lake is here to stay Thin and light notebook computeralthough we ended up seeing some of the remaining SKUs in more enterprise notebooks. Intel pointed out that the newly released HP EliteBook X is equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 268V. This SKU includes four performance cores and four efficiency cores in an 8 x 8 core/thread configuration. It boosts the P-core frequency to 5.1 GHz and comes with a 12 MB cache. This is one of the chips we’ve only seen from Intel itself, and so far the high-end Ultra 9 288V hasn’t made much of a splash in the months since September 2024.

As you’d expect, these business laptops should include some security features. Still, Intel promises its chips will use their neural processing power to better detect threats.

As for desktops, the biggest change will be the Intel Core Ultra 200S series, so the Ultra 9 285S should be much better than the company’s 14th generation in terms of AI performance. Whether or not AI processing power is important to you, at least we’re finally seeing what Intel has in store for non-lightweight laptops. We’re excited to see Intel get its mojo back, but we’ll have to see for ourselves if these chips are a good first step.

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