Intel has its CES 2025 even keynote, and we are going to cover it live. We expect new mobile chips, specifically focusing on the Intel Core Ultra 200 series. We also expect a heavy dose of AI throughout the day.
As a note, we are covering this live, so please excuse typos.
Intel CES 2025 Keynote Coverage Live
The event is kicking off Intel is talking about a renewed focus on creating world-class products across not just the consumer, but also the data center portfolios.
Intel is now discussing Lunar Lake or the Intel Core Ultra 200 series. Intel is not only focusing on performance but also the power efficiency. Intel said it sold over 1.5M PCs to date. In Q4, Intel also released the Arc B580 which is a value play. Intel says it will launch the Intel Arc B570 GPU next week.
IDC says the PC market is growing this year 4% year over year. That is said to be the biggest growth since the pandemic. In addition, there is an AI PC technology transition and Windows refresh cycle. Intel says that more than 40% of PCs shipped in 2025 will be AI-capable.
Here is Jim with one of the more interesting slides. It has the NPU and GPU balance even and not far behind the CPU.
Now we are getting the Intel Core Ultra 200V series for the commercial market. Intel is hammering home the idea that with x86 it just works.
Intel said its vPro technology allowed its customers to recover from Blue Friday using remote remediation.
Intel vPro is adding the Intel vPro Fleet services. This is now a cloud-based deployment model instead of using an on-prem server. The one-to-many remediation is designed to help fix fleet-wide issues like what happens when the Blue Friday CrowdStrike outage happened during the summer of 2024.
Intel is also talking about Copilot+ PCs in the commercial setting. That includes Microsoft bringing Phi Silica to Intel AI PCs. This is a small language model designed to run on local NPUs for security and performance.
Intel is now moving onto the consumer space with the Intel Core Ultra 200H Arrow Lake H.
Here are the key specs. Something highlighted here is that there is PCIe Gen5 for dGPU connectivity.
Here are the key SKUs:
The bigger part is the Intel Arrow Lake HX or the Intel Core Ultra 200HX series.
48 PCIe lanes are crazy exciting! We cannot wait to see these in systems. This is for higher-end laptops that will launch later in Q1.
Here is the Intel 18A Panther Lake that will be here later this year.
Intel Products is customer zero for Intel 18A, the company’s big Intel Foundry bet.
Final Words
2025 is the year we expect Arm-based competitors to make a bigger dent in the market, so Intel needs to keep executing. We expect both AMD and NVIDIA keynotes later today to focus heavily on AI. For both AMD and NVIDIA, we will have someone special covering the keynotes today.
The big question is when can we get an Intel Core Ultra 200HX mini PC?
The big question is when can we get an Intel Core Ultra 200HX mini PC [with 48 PCIe lanes]?
Hopefully the 48x PCIe lanes could lead to some mobile workstations (ie Dell Precision) with inbuilt 10 GbE! We use laptops for portability for both our dev and field deployed systems, and 1GbE is currently a limiting factor in our data export and analysis. Dongles are annoying.
I looked for a laptop with the new core chip. After about an hour I stopped as I couldn’t work out which ‘Core’ the device had. If I, someone actively aware of the differences and looking for the processor can’t find the blighting thing then what chance has someone less interested?
What’d be wrong with changing the name when it’s a new architecture?