Intel Supplies Core Ultra 200HX Plus in Limited Quantities to Laptop Makers

Laptops powered by Intel’s latest Core Ultra 200HX Plus mobile processors won’t arrive all at once but will instead be released in stages, according to PC World. Intel is supplying its OEM partners with these chips in waves. Some OEMs are receiving the chips first, while others will have to wait weeks before their shipments arrive. For example, Lenovo and Razer are the only OEMs that can immediately ship their new laptops based on the Core Ultra 200HX Plus chips. Customers of other brands, such as Dell, will have to wait until the end of March, while MSI laptops will ship in the second quarter of this year. Perhaps the most delayed is ASUS, whose laptops will hit the market in late May, allowing ASUS fans and customers to get the new “Arrow Lake-HX Refresh” CPUs.

When considering the reasons for such limited availability at launch, we need to examine Intel’s supply chain for the “Arrow Lake-HX.” Since TSMC manufactures this generation, Intel’s capacity allocation is limited to what the company set months ago. As a result, Intel is supplying these CPUs in waves as they come out of TSMC’s fabs. If the process were internal to Intel, the company would likely manage manufacturing more easily with a predictable supply. If the launch involved a server-grade processor or something with a higher margin, Intel would likely allocate more TSMC capacity beforehand. However, since this generation serves the lower-margin mobile market, the current allocation is working adequately, just with a bit of a delay. Below is a complete list of design wins that Intel has secured from OEMs and its partners for Core Ultra 200HX Plus processor family.

Acer

• Predator Helios Neo 16S AI
• Predator Helios Neo 16 AI
• Predator Helios Neo 18 AI

ASUSColorfulDell Technologies

• Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming Laptop
• Alienware 18 Area-51 Gaming Laptop
• Alienware 16X Aurora Gaming Laptop

HP Inc.

• HyperX OMEN 15
• HyperX OMEN 16
• HyperX OMEN MAX 16

Lenovo

• Lenovo Legion 7i (16″, 10)
• Lenovo Legion 5i (15″, 11)
• Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (16″, 10)
• Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (16″, 10)

MAINGEARMechrevo

• Mechrevo Yaoshi 18 Pro
• Mechrevo Yaoshi 16 Ultra

MSIOrigin

• Origin PC Gaming Notebook EON18X
• Origin PC Gaming Notebook EON16X

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