Intel says its Core Ultra Series 2 chips are faster than the laptop processors many offices still run. In its own tests, the Core Ultra 265H beat a four-year-old Core i7-1185G7 by 2.84 times in the Cinebench 2024 benchmark and 2.42 times in the Geekbench 6.3 multicore test.
The company revealed the commercial lineup at MWC 2025. It adds four families under the Arrow Lake name: the Core Ultra 200U, 200H, 200HX and 200S. They sit alongside the earlier Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V.
Here is how the range splits up. The 200U is for thin and light laptops. The 200H and 200HX target performance notebooks. The 200S is meant for desktops and workstations. Arrow Lake devices start shipping in March 2025.
Intel’s benchmark claims
Intel compared the new chips with the ones they replace. The Core Ultra 7 265U came out ahead of the 165U across Cinebench, Geekbench and Procyon tests, with a boost of up to 1.30 times in Procyon Video Editing. The 265H beat the 165H by between 1.01 and 1.60 times, depending on the test.
Against rivals, Intel says the 265H edges out the Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100. It also claims a 15% lead over AMD’s Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 in the Cinebench 2024 single-core test. These are the company’s numbers, not independent results.
David Feng, a vice president at Intel’s Client Computing Group, said Intel is “delivering the most advanced commercial systems to date” with the Series 2 processors, and described 2025 as a big year for PC refreshes.
Supply chain checks
Intel also announced an Assured Supply Chain program for select Series 2 products. In plain terms, certain manufacturers will be able to supply a system-on-chip with a digitally verifiable record of how the silicon was made. Governments and handlers of sensitive data would get more control over what they buy. The program arrives in the second half of 2025.
“Intel has long been a leader in secure, transparent and reliable semiconductor manufacturing,” said Jennifer Larson, general manager of Commercial Client Segments at Intel. She called the program “another step forward in strengthening trust in the technology that powers our customers’ critical operations.”
