Intel is significantly expanding its desktop Core Ultra 200 "Arrow Lake-S" lineup with new 65 W models along the sidelines of the 2025 International CES, but more importantly, it is bringing the "Arrow Lake" microarchitecture to the mobile space. The company is planning to launch at least 22 processor models this January, but not all of them are based on "Arrow Lake." Tom's Hardware reports that the lineup broadly revolves around the "Core 2-series" processor model numbering.

The Core Ultra 200H series consists of H-segment (conventional thickness notebook) processors in the 28 W to 45 W class, and are based on the "Arrow Lake-H" silicon. The Core Ultra 200HX series targets premium gaming notebooks and portable workstations, and consists of 55 W to 65 W class processors, including CPU overclocking capabilities on certain models. Things get interesting with the Core Ultra 200U series. These chips are based on the "Meteor Lake Refresh" silicon—an older microarchitecture—targeting the 7 W to 28 W segments for ultraportables. Lastly, there's the Core H 200 and Core U 200 series (no "Ultra" in the branding), which are based on the older "Raptor Lake" monolithic silicon, targeting mainstream notebooks.The Core Ultra 200H series is based on a tweaked version of the "Arrow Lake" chiplet CPU, which has a smaller Compute tile with a 6P+8E CPU core configuration, and 24 MB L3 cache; but paired with a larger Graphics tile, with twice the number of Xe cores as the one on "Arrow Lake-S." The SoC tile is unchanged, and so you still only get a 14 TOPS-class NPU, which doesn't meet Microsoft Copilot+. The lineup consists of the Core Ultra 9 285H, Core Ultra 7 265H, Core Ultra 7 255H, Core Ultra 5 235H, and Core Ultra 5 225H.

The Core Ultra 200HX series, is based on "Arrow Lake HX," which is basically a BGA variant of the "Arrow Lake-S," with a large Compute tile that has 8P+16E CPU cores, 36 MB of L3 cache, more I/O from the SoC tile thanks to a larger version of the breakout I/O tile, but a smaller Graphics tile with just 4 Xe cores. The idea here is that a gaming notebook or portable workstation is bound to come with a discrete GPU. The lineup consists of the Core Ultra 9 285HX, Core Ultra 9 275HX, Core Ultra 7 265HX, Core Ultra 7 255HX, Core Ultra 5 245HX, and the Core Ultra 5 235HX.

Why Intel decided to leave the U-segment to the older "Meteor Lake Refresh" microarchitecture probably has to do with the Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" the company launched in 2024. "Lunar Lake" is cutting-edge, featuring the latest CPU core IP, as well as a Copilot+ NPU, and Xe2 "Battlemage" graphics, which means the company wants premium ultraportables to stick to "Lunar Lake." Notebook OEMs probably want a more cost-effective U-segment processor line, and so having this based on "Arrow Lake" would cannibalize "Lunar Lake." The company would rather refresh "Meteor Lake." The lineup is spartan, consisting of the Core Ultra 7 265U, Core Ultra 7 255U, Core Ultra 5 235U, and Core Ultra 5 225U.

Lastly, there's the Core non-Ultra U/H series. These chips lack an NPU, and feature older CPU and graphics IP, as they're based on the "Raptor Lake" monolithic silicon. Intel probably wants the mainstream notebook market to soak up all remaining inventories of "Raptor Lake," and hence created a line of mobile processors that's vastly differentiated, with 7 processor SKUs—Core 9 270H, Core 7 250H, Core 7 240H, Core 5 220H, Core 5 210H, Core 7 250U, and Core 5 220U.