Intel is reportedly developing laptop chips based on its rumored "Raptor Lake Next" CPU core architecture, which will be branded as the Core 2000HX series. These chips are necessary to provide options for PC buyers stuck with the decade-old DDR4 memory standard due to the DDR5 memory pricing crisis, given that current Core Ultra "Arrow Lake" processors lack DDR4 backward compatibility.
For mobile "Raptor Lake Next" chips, Intel is expected to bring a core configuration of up to 8 P-Cores and 16 E-Cores, for a total of 24 cores, similar to regular "Raptor Lake" and "Raptor Lake Refresh" chips. Since "Nova Lake-HX" laptop chips are expected to carry the Core Ultra 4000HX naming scheme, Intel will drop "Ultra" and downgrade the series naming to Core 2000HX to differentiate the new Intel 18A chips from the older Intel 7 "Raptor Lake" dies.
We can expect slight adjustments, as seen with the "Raptor Lake Refresh," that improve D2D latency and include some minor tweaks. Since "Arrow Lake-HX" uses the Core Ultra 200HX branding, this would avoid confusion with previous models.
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