Month: January 2025

Intel Arrow Lake-U, H and HX chips for laptops are coming in Q1, 2025

Intel debuted its Arrow Lake-S line of processors for desktop computers in October, and now the company is bringing Arrow Lake architecture to laptops and mini PCs with a new line of U, H and HX-Series mobile processors. The Arrow Lake-H family brings …

Intel debuted its Arrow Lake-S line of processors for desktop computers in October, and now the company is bringing Arrow Lake architecture to laptops and mini PCs with a new line of U, H and HX-Series mobile processors. The Arrow Lake-H family brings up to a 15 percent boost in CPU and graphics performance when […]

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Same CPU, slower GPU and NPU: Meet the rest of Intel’s Core Ultra 200 laptop chips

Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX will all fall short of Copilot+ compatibility.

Intel's Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between two architectures: Lunar Lake, which powers the Core Ultra 200V series of laptop chips; and Arrow Lake, which is included in the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors. Both share the same CPU architectures across their P-cores and E-cores, but the similarities end there. Arrow Lake processors can include many more CPU cores, but only Lunar Lake uses Intel's latest GPU architecture and a neural processing unit (NPU) fast enough for Microsoft's Copilot+ functionality.

Intel is rounding out the rest of the Core Ultra 200 family today at CES, and the most important thing to know is that it's Arrow Lake, and not Lunar Lake, that is powering all of these new processors. This means that none of them are fast enough to earn the Copilot+ label or use upcoming features like Windows Recall, and none of them will have integrated graphics that are as good as the Core Ultra 200V. But it will make them a better fit for gaming laptops and other kinds of systems that prioritize CPU performance or include an external graphics card, as well as less-expensive ultraportable laptops.

Intel may be going with Arrow Lake because Lunar Lake processors are more expensive to make; Intel's (now former) CEO, Pat Gelsinger, declared the Lunar Lake design a "one-off" because of the extra cost associated with integrating the RAM into the CPU package. Intel said at the time that this saved motherboard space and reduced energy use, but these benefits aren't being extended to the rest of the lineup.

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Same CPU, slower GPU and NPU: Meet the rest of Intel’s Core Ultra 200 laptop chips

Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX will all fall short of Copilot+ compatibility.

Intel's Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between two architectures: Lunar Lake, which powers the Core Ultra 200V series of laptop chips; and Arrow Lake, which is included in the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors. Both share the same CPU architectures across their P-cores and E-cores, but the similarities end there. Arrow Lake processors can include many more CPU cores, but only Lunar Lake uses Intel's latest GPU architecture and a neural processing unit (NPU) fast enough for Microsoft's Copilot+ functionality.

Intel is rounding out the rest of the Core Ultra 200 family today at CES, and the most important thing to know is that it's Arrow Lake, and not Lunar Lake, that is powering all of these new processors. This means that none of them are fast enough to earn the Copilot+ label or use upcoming features like Windows Recall, and none of them will have integrated graphics that are as good as the Core Ultra 200V. But it will make them a better fit for gaming laptops and other kinds of systems that prioritize CPU performance or include an external graphics card, as well as less-expensive ultraportable laptops.

Intel may be going with Arrow Lake because Lunar Lake processors are more expensive to make; Intel's (now former) CEO, Pat Gelsinger, declared the Lunar Lake design a "one-off" because of the extra cost associated with integrating the RAM into the CPU package. Intel said at the time that this saved motherboard space and reduced energy use, but these benefits aren't being extended to the rest of the lineup.

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Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

The carrot of “new features” and the stick of “no more updates for your old PC.”

Last January at CES, Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2024 the "year of the AI PC." And whether you believe that prediction came true or not—many new PCs come with AI-accelerating neural processing units (NPUs) onboard, but far from all of them—you can't deny that Microsoft did try very hard to make it happen.

This year, Mehdi is back with another prediction: 2025 will be "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." This year is also, not coincidentally, the year that most Windows 10 PCs will stop receiving new security updates.

Mehdi's post includes few if any new announcements, but it does set the tone for how Microsoft is handling the sunsetting of Windows 10, attempting to strike a balance between carrot and stick. The carrots include Windows 11's new features (both AI and otherwise), and the performance, security, and battery life benefits inherent to brand-new PC hardware. The stick is that Windows 10 support ends in October of 2025, and Microsoft is not interested in extending that date for the general public or in expanding official Windows 11 support to older PCs.

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Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

The carrot of “new features” and the stick of “no more updates for your old PC.”

Last January at CES, Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2024 the "year of the AI PC." And whether you believe that prediction came true or not—many new PCs come with AI-accelerating neural processing units (NPUs) onboard, but far from all of them—you can't deny that Microsoft did try very hard to make it happen.

This year, Mehdi is back with another prediction: 2025 will be "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." This year is also, not coincidentally, the year that most Windows 10 PCs will stop receiving new security updates.

Mehdi's post includes few if any new announcements, but it does set the tone for how Microsoft is handling the sunsetting of Windows 10, attempting to strike a balance between carrot and stick. The carrots include Windows 11's new features (both AI and otherwise), and the performance, security, and battery life benefits inherent to brand-new PC hardware. The stick is that Windows 10 support ends in October of 2025, and Microsoft is not interested in extending that date for the general public or in expanding official Windows 11 support to older PCs.

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Kritik an Nasa: Musk will direkt zum Mars fliegen

Trumps künftiger Sonderberater Elon Musk hat das Artemis-Programm der Nasa kritisiert. Einen Kurswechsel wird es aber vermutlich kaum geben. (Elon Musk, Nasa)

Trumps künftiger Sonderberater Elon Musk hat das Artemis-Programm der Nasa kritisiert. Einen Kurswechsel wird es aber vermutlich kaum geben. (Elon Musk, Nasa)