Intel has quietly rolled out three new Arrow Lake processors as part of its Ultra 5 lineup, enhancing its entry-level options with the Ultra 5 235A, 235TA, and 235UA models. The Ultra 5 235A and 235TA processors are quite similar, both featuring a total of 14 cores—six of which are performance cores and eight are efficient cores with 14 threads. They can both reach turbo frequencies of 5 GHz on their performance cores, while the efficient cores can go up to 4.4 GHz. The main difference between the two CPUs is the power consumption and base frequencies. The Ultra 5 235A runs at 65 W with its performance cores clocking at a base frequency of 3.4 GHz. The Intel Ultra 5 235TA is designed to be more power-efficient, operating at just 35 W with its performance cores running at a base frequency of 2.2 GHz. Both of these desktop models are built using TSMC's N3B manufacturing process and come equipped with 24 MB of Smart Cache.

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The Ultra 5 235UA has an identical device ID to the Ultra 7 265U, a Meteor Lake based CPU that uses Redwood Cove P-Cores and Crestmont E-Cores, thus, the CPU does actually have 12 cores and 14 threads, due to the two P-Cores offering Hyper-Threading, which was removed in Arrow Lake's Lion Cove P-Core design, for security, area efficiency, and performance reasons. This is quite confusing, since the product is marketed as an Arrow Lake "Series 2" CPU, but is actually based on the preceding mobile only Meteor Lake "Series 1" architecture. The only differences between the 235UA/265U and the Meteor Lake 165U is the process node the chip is built on, with the 165U being fabbed on Intel 4, and the 265U/235UA refresh chips being fabbed on Intel 3, which allows for a slight clock speed bump within the same power budget.

The "Series 2," "Arrow Lake" Ultra 5 235UA takes a different route, focusing on ultra-low power applications with a 12-core Core Ultra Series 1 Meteor Lake based design. This mobile processor features two performance cores, eight efficient cores (2.0 GHz Base / 4.9 GHz Max.), and an extra pair of low-power efficient cores (1.6 GHz Base / 4.1 GHz Max. and 700 MHz / 2.4 GHz in low-power mode), allowing it to maintain 12 threads even with fewer total P-Cores. It operates at a mere 15 W base power and can ramp up to a maximum turbo of 57 W. Unlike the others, the 235UA utilizes Intel's own 3 nm process technology instead of TSMC's. All three processors support DDR5 memory and come with integrated graphics, though their performance levels vary. It is expected that all three processors to be available in Q3 2025. The desktop models (Ultra 5 235A and 235TA) are listed on Intel's website with an MSRP of $269.

Interestingly, Intel's own specifications page for the 235UA currently lists the CPU as having 10 cores in the search results, something that is impossible when considering the core count of 12. It seems that copy-pasting the Meteor Lake CPU into a "Series 2, Arrow Lake" model was possible, but copy-pasting the specifications correctly was a little too hard.