Intel's CES 2025 Keynote

Hello you fine Internet folks,

Intel held a keynote at CES 2025 about their upcoming products in the form of Arrow Lake U, H, and HX, and a refresh of Intel N-series along with some news about Battlemage and XeSS2.

Starting with the refresh of the N-series and we see that it’s basically a 100 MHz clock bump across the board with no architectural changes.

Moving to Arrow Lake U and again we see a clock bump but there have been more changes then what seem on the surface. What was not mentioned in the keynote, nor in the video due to it not being covered in the keynote, is that Arrow Lake U is on Intel 3 compared to Meteor Lake U being on Intel 4. This has given a clock speed bump of up to 500 MHz despite no architectural changes.

However, Arrow Lake U keeps the same Redwood Cove P-cores and Crestmont E-cores as Meteor Lake.

Moving to a much higher power budget mobile part, Arrow Lake HX is for all intents and purposes desktop Arrow Lake put into a 55+ watt BGA form factor.

Moving to Arrow Lake H and it has the most changes of all the CPUs here. With 6 Lion Cove cores and 8 Skymont cores, it uses the same cores as the desktop Arrow Lake on the CPU tile with the SOC tile being carried over from Meteor Lake meaning the LP E-Cores are the same Crestmont cores as from the prior generation.

But it wasn’t just the CPU that has seen an update; the GPU also has had an overhaul. The Arrow Lake H’s iGPU while using the same Alchemist base as both Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake non-H SKUs but Arrow Lake H adds the XMX units from the discrete ARC GPUs. This added compute means that Intel is able to bring XeSS2 to Arrow Lake H along with Battlemage based devices such as Lunar Lake, B580 dGPU, the upcoming B570 dGPU.

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