At MWC 2025 today, Intel announced an expansion of the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processor family with vPro management capabilities for commercial AI laptops and desktop PCs and workstations. The new chips are built on Intel’s “Arrow Lake” architecture and will ship this month.
“2025 is a pivotal year for PC refresh, and with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors, we’re delivering the most advanced commercial systems to date,” Intel vice president David Feng said. “Our AI PC processors cater to every form factor–from thin-and-light productivity devices to high-performance workstations–all backed by Intel vPro, which sets the industry standard in business computing with unmatched manageability and security.”
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The new chips include the Intel Core Ultra 200U, 200H, 200HX and 200S series processors, which slot in alongside the existing Intel Core Ultra 200V “Lunar Lake” series processors. The new chips all feature Intel’s vPro management and security technologies, but they differentiate from each other in various ways.
The U-series chips are optimized for premium thin and light laptops, while H-series processors target premium laptops. Both feature a hybrid design with P-cores, E-cores, and low power E-cores, and four (U-series) or eight (H-series) Xe graphics cores. And HX is for enthusiast laptops, with up to 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores. (V-series processors, as before, are for next-generation AI laptops, specifically Copilot+ PCs and feature 48 TOPS NPUs. The other Core Ultra Series 2 chips all have 13 TOPS NPUs.)
The 200S series chips are aimed at desktop PCs and workstations. They feature 14 to 20 processor cores, with up to 4 GPU cores, and offer a 30 percent power usage reduction compared to 14th Gen Intel Core processors.
