News Intel Core 200 "Non Ultra" CPUs may be rebranded Raptor Lake/Alder Lake chips — Core 5 210H spotted with slower performance than the Core i5-12450H

[Admin]

Intel's new Core 200 "Non Ultra" series of processors will again be based on Raptor Lake instead of Arrow Lake.

Intel Core 200 "Non Ultra" CPUs may be rebranded Raptor Lake/Alder Lake chips — Core 5 210H spotted with slower performance than the Core i5-12450H : Read more

 

[cyrusfox]

It makes sense that the packaging for these chips(Meteor/alder lake), particularly with Intel’s advanced chip stacking technology, can’t be too cheap. For lower-end offerings, a solid monolithic design is hard to beat. In budget platforms, the Raptor/Alder series can be efficient if not pushed too hard on turbo. In the sub-$600 laptop market, Intel needs to be careful about how much the CPU contributes to the bill of materials, as they can't afford to place these newer, costlier chips in low-margin products when older, more mature designs fit the bill better.

 

[watzupken]

I feel this is where Intel will have a hard time selling these other than to PC manufacturers like Lenovo, Dell, etc. Raptor Lake CPUs can be competitive with AMD's Zen 4, but usually at the expense of much higher power draw due to high clock speed and number of physical cores to feed. Furthermore, after this whole Raptor Lake fiasco, I personally won't want to buy a Raptor Lake CPU even if Intel said the issue is fixed. Alder Lake is probably a safer deal.

 

[jp7189]

I know I'm in the minority on this forum in thinking Arrow is fabbed at TSMC, but i see this news as further confirmation. Intel's fabbing just enough of the high end models at TSMC to remain competitive with the rest being re-rolls on Intel fabs to increase margin.