Intel has launched its Core Ultra 200V series of processors for commercial thin-and-light laptops, touting them as the next-generation AI PCs with unparalleled performance and efficiency. The new chips are expected to become available in systems starting this month, with various other chip lines also set to launch.
The Core Ultra 200V series features a Lunar Lake microarchitecture with four performance cores, four low-power efficiency cores, eight GPU cores based on Intel’s Xe2 architecture, and 32GB of on-package memory. This enables up to 48 trillion operations per second in the neural processing unit (NPU).
Intel claims that these chips can deliver up to 20 percent more productivity, two times longer battery life, and five times faster Wi-Fi compared to a three-year-old PC. The Core Ultra 200V processors also feature Intel’s vPro management and security platform, which supports new security capabilities from Microsoft.
Compared to AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite series, the Core Ultra 7 268V is faster in most benchmarks, including PugetBench Premiere Pro, Procyon Photo, CrossMark for productivity, WebXPRT 4 for Chrome, and Procyon for Office productivity.
The new processors also demonstrate improved battery life capabilities, with up to 10.5 hours of battery life on a video call showing nine simultaneous video streams and up to 20.3 hours in the UL Procyon Battery Life Office Productivity benchmark.
Intel’s Core Ultra 200V series is part of its strategy to accelerate the enterprise transition to Windows 11 and harness the benefits of AI between Microsoft experiences and the broad Intel AI ISV ecosystem.
Source: https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/intel-slugs-amd-qualcomm-with-core-ultra-200v-chips-for-commercial-laptops