Intel 'very committed' to their discrete graphics cards, Core Ultra 200HX and H Series CPUs announced

Intel have presented their Keynote at CES 2025, to announce their newest CPUs along with assuring everyone their continuing with the dedicated graphics card business.

For the graphics cards, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, the interim co-CEO of Intel and CEO of Intel Products, mentioned "I get this question a lot. We are very committed to the discrete graphics market and we will continue to make strategic investments in this direction."

That wording leaves a little room for interpretation of course, as "strategic investments" could mean many things. The Intel Arc Arc B580 is already out and the Intel Arc B570 releases next week (as previously covered).

As for their newest CPUs today they announced the Intel Core Ultra 200HX and H Series mobile processors. From the press release: "Our Intel Core Ultra 200HX and H series processors are built for the next generation of creators and gamers," said Josh Newman, vice president of the Client Computing Group and general manager of Product Marketing and Management at Intel. "With breakthrough compute and graphics performance, efficiency and AI capabilities, these processors will push the entire laptop experience to new heights."

Key features:

• Up to 24 cores – eight Performance-cores (P-cores) and 16 Efficient-cores (E-cores) – for HX-series and up to 16 cores – six P-cores, eight E-cores and two low-power E-cores – for H-series, based on Intel’s latest core architecture. These new processors give gamers, creators and professionals the computing power they need for gaming and creating on the go – including up to 41% better multi-thread (MT) performance for Intel Core Ultra 200HX series compared to prior-gen HX-series processors.
• The Intel Core Ultra 200H series features Intel® Arc™ graphics with up to eight Intel Xe cores featuring Intel® Xe Matrix Extensions (XMX) for AI acceleration – providing up to 22% better gaming performance compared with prior gen H-series processors. Across the entire platform these processors deliver up to 99 TOPS (trillion operations per second) when using the graphics processing unit (GPU), central processing unit (CPU) and neural processing unit (NPU).
• The Intel Core Ultra 200HX series processor is Intel’s first mobile enthusiast AI PC with a built-in NPU, providing 13 TOPS.
• The Intel Core Ultra 200HX series processor provides the latest in bandwidth and connectivity, with as many as 48 total PCIe lanes (including PCIe 4.0 and 5.0) to connect the latest discrete GPUs and storage.
• Packaging improvements result in a 33% smaller processor package overall, enabling new premium thin-and-light designs without compromising on performance.

The models announced:

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