Intel and AMD are both widely expected to hit the market with new high-performance mobile chips at CES 2025. We expect Team Blue to lift the curtains on its Core Ultra 200H and 200HX lineup, whereas Team Red will strike back with its Strix Halo products, a few of which were leaked recently with promising performance. However, that's not all that we expect from the x86 behemoths, as both are poised to introduce mid-range and budget offerings as well.

Interestingly, it appears that Intel has already pulled back the veil on its Raptor Lake-H Refresh-based Core 200H lineup, which has been revealed as the Core Processor series. The lineup consists of mostly rebadged Raptor Lake-H chips, with some confusing choices. The products, based on the Intel 7 node, are as follows.At the high-end, we have the Core 9 Processor 270H with 14-cores and a P-core boost clock of 5.8 GHz, whereas at the low-end, we have the Core 5 Processor 210H with 8-cores and a P-core boost clock of 4.8 GHz. Interestingly, the Core 5 Processor 220H has more cores than the Core 7 Processor 240H, although the latter does have more P-cores. Even then, the lineup sure does appear confusing for shoppers who aren't tech-savvy enough to know that not all cores are built the same.

As expected, the Core 200H series does not get Intel's new graphics architecture, and sticks with the same Raptor Lake-era iGPUs, barring them from the plethora of Intel Arc advantages. Starting next year, consumers will have to deal with three different architectures being shipped all at once - Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200V), Meteor Lake (Core Ultra 200U), Raptor Lake (Core Processor 200H/U), and Arrow Lake (Core Ultra 200H/X). Buying a laptop is about to get absurdly complicated for those not in the know.