Some purported specifications of Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 200U or Arrow Lake-U mobile processors have been surfaced by Jaykihn at X. It turns out that despite the "Ultra" moniker; the Core Ultra 200U CPUs will utilize an updated version of the Meteor Lake architecture - reportedly using the Intel 3 node.
We double-checked and it turns out that Intel's naming scheme gets more confusing with each new launch. Arrow Lake-U is designated for thin and light laptops - with TDPs ranging between 12W, 15W, and 28W. The non-Ultra counterparts (Core 200U) are still based on Alder Lake silicon. These CPUs feature P-cores and E-cores using the Redwood Cove+ and Crestmont Enhanced microarchitectures respectively, in contrast to Lion Cove and Skymont on Arrow Lake chips. Meteor Lake or the Core Ultra 100 series was powered by the same architecture under the hood hence saying that Team Blue is porting Meteor Lake to Intel 3 isn't far off the mark. This is likely due to costs, as TSMC's N3B node doesn't come in cheap - but that's just speculation.
