Intel silently adds three new power-efficient Arrow Lake CPUs to the portfolio

[Redaktion]

Intel has expanded its Core Ultra 5 235 lineup with a Core Ultra 5 235A, a 235TA, and a mobile 235UA. These have almost exactly the same specifications as the Core Ultra 5 235, the Core Ultra 5 235T, and the Core Ultra 5 235U.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-silently-adds-three-new-power-efficient-Arrow-Lake-CPUs-to-the-portfolio.1074220.0.html

[Hotz]

Why launch these useless chips instead of a decent APU? It would be easy for them as they could simply make a desktop CPU with 8 Xe-cores. Lots of people in forums and youtube would like that. SFF builds with only iGPU have become much more common since a few years (Asrock Deskmini, thin clients from Dell, HP, Lenovo), and are much more flexible than those countless minimalistic 4x4 china-mini-pc boxes.

And it's not like Intel would loose GPU sales by making APUs... the train for that has long left. So why not make a competitor to AMDs 8000G desktop APU series?

[2Arrow&1Meteor reNOfresh]

Core Ultra 5 235U is Meteor Lake refresh, not Arrow Lake; so must be Core Ultra 5 235UA.

notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-Ultra-200U-Refreshed-Meteor-Lake-chips-unveiled-for-thin-and-light-laptops.941408.0.html