Intel launched its high-performance Arrow Lake-H and HX series mobile processors, officially known as the Core Ultra 200H and 200HX, at CES 2025 and showed off an array of partner systems based on the chips as well. For those unfamiliar, Arrow Lake-H is very different than the lower-power Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra 200S series for notebooks that launched a few months back. Arrow Lake-H is a higher-power mobile platform, that uses the same “Lion Cove” P-cores and “Skymont” E-cores as Arrow Lake-based desktop processors, but tuned for lower-power mobile applications. Arrow Lake-H also features an NPU and a relatively powerful integrated Xe-LPG+ GPU, but the NPU isn’t quite as powerful as what’s utilized in Lunar Lake. In fact Arrow Lake-H’s NPU is akin to the one Intel employed on the previous-gen Meteor Lake and desktop Arrow Lake processors. Don’t let that make you think Arrow Lake-H isn’t well suited for AI workloads, though.
Read MoreQualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite has caused quite the shake-up in the laptop market, with very competitive performance, fantastic battery life and a dedicated 45 TOPS neural engine for currently evolving AI workloads. I’ve written about Snapdragon X-based laptops and the platform in the past, but in this report, I’m going to delve into my experience living on Lenovo’s new Snapdragon X Elite-powered Yoga Slim 7x laptop, using the machine as my daily driver and travel workhorse.
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