One of Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, promising next-generation power-efficient chips for laptops, has just been spotted and appears to be part of the Core Ultra 200 family.
This comes courtesy of a leak on X (formerly Twitter), highlighted by VideoCardz and posted by @miktdt (a leak that has surfaced a few times lately).
Intel Corporation Lunar Lake Client Platform/LNL-M LP5Detected 3100,000 MHz processorIntel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 5 234V 2.10GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0xbd, stepping: 0x1)cores per package: 8threads per package: 8https: / /t.co/eDZ71yTO2oApril 4, 2024
As you can see, the CPU is called the Intel Core Ultra 5 234V, as posted on 01.org, Team Blue’s Open Source Technology Center – so the information should be correct (one would hope).
The processor has been confirmed to have 8 cores, and as previously rumored, was split into 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. We can safely ignore the 2.1 GHz clock speed as this silicon is still in testing phase.
V for victory?
What’s interesting here is the fact that the Lunar Lake processor is a Core Ultra part with a ‘V’ suffix. It will run alongside Arrow Lake’s mobile H and HX chips – high-end silicon – with Lunar Lake covering the lower end and majoring in serious efficiency. The idea is that it’s perfect for premium thin and light laptops.
These will all be Core Ultra 200 CPUs, with the Ultra indicating they use the latest Intel architecture, while there will also be Raptor Lake Refresh H laptop processors which will also be part of the Core 200 range (but not labeled ‘Ultra’, as this is the last generation architecture).
Yes, the naming scheme is a bit confusing, but what do you expect from Intel? It’s par for the course, and honestly, we’ve seen more complicated naming in the tech world.
Core 200 CPUs will succeed the current Core 100 series, which consists of Meteor Lake – both high-end (H) and low-end (U) processors – alongside some Raptor Lake Refresh chips.
Some previous rumors suggested that with Intel’s next generation of laptop products we might also see Arrow Lake-U CPUs under Lunar Lake, for a more wallet-friendly alternative in cheaper notebooks – and that may still be the case. However, VideoCardz makes no mention of such chips here. As always, we’ll see how it turns out.