Intel processor with twelve performance cores launches as "Core 2 with P-Cores"

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Intel is launching a brand-new processor for the more than four-year-old LGA1700 socket: the “Core 2 Series 200 with P-Cores,” also known as Bartlett Lake. The special feature of this CPU series is that it has eight, ten, or twelve performance cores (P-Cores) but no efficiency cores. While LGA1700 processors with many more CPU cores have existed for a long time, they previously had a maximum of eight P-Cores.

The Core 2 200PE series is not intended for standard desktop PCs but primarily for industrial computers and embedded systems – hence the letter “E” in the model designations. A Core 2 200PE will not work on most LGA1700 motherboards. However, there is already a wide selection of compatible LGA1700 boards with R680E, Q670E, or H610E chipsets. Several manufacturers are already providing the necessary BIOS updates for Bartlett Lake.

Mature Technology

The LGA1700 socket debuted at the end of 2021 along with the Core i-12000 Alder Lake, which is the 12th generation Core i manufactured using “Intel 7” process technology, which Intel previously called 10-nanometer technology. The subsequent (and last) Core i generations 13 (Raptor Lake) and 14 (Raptor Lake Refresh), which are still manufactured today, also stem from this.

Since the beginning of 2025, Intel has been supplying embedded versions of Raptor Lake CPUs for LGA1700 boards such as Core 3 201E, Core 5 211E, and Core 7 251E, which carry the codename Bartlett Lake. However, some also contain E-cores in addition to P-cores. This hybrid mix is not suitable for some applications when predictable latencies are important. Therefore, server processors (Xeons) always use only cores of the same design, which is also the case with AMD (Epyc) and ARM server processors.

On motherboards with the R680E chipset, the new Bartlett Lake processors also control unbuffered DDR5 memory modules with additional DRAM chips for Error Correction Code (ECC).

Clear competitor: AMD Ryzen Embedded

Many x86-based embedded systems use embedded versions of more power-efficient and compact mobile processors. Both AMD and Intel offer several series of chips with long-term availability for this purpose.

The socketed embedded processors offer higher computing performance and more PCIe 5.0 lanes for expansion cards. They are used, for example, in industrial robots, medical imaging devices, network components such as firewalls, and also in some compact (storage) servers.

AMD has been selling Ryzen Embedded versions with significantly more powerful cores than Intel for some time, such as the Ryzen Embedded 7000 with up to 12 Zen 4 cores and the Ryzen Embedded 9000 with up to 16 Zen 5 cores. Closely related are the server versions Epyc 4004 (Zen 4/AM4/DDR4 RAM) and Epyc 4005 (Zen 5/AM5/DDR5 RAM), each with up to 16 CPU cores.

Intel can now at least get closer to AMD's competition in terms of the number of P-cores for these device and price classes with two DDR5 RAM channels. Compared to the AMD Ryzen Embedded 9700X, Intel promises lower PCIe latency for the Core 9 273PE. Intel also mentions Time Coordinated Computing (TCC) and Ethernet adapters with Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). Intel plans to supply the Bartlett Lake chips for ten years.

Embedded Versions of Panther Lake

At the Embedded World trade fair in Nuremberg, Intel will also showcase embedded versions of the Core Ultra 300 (Panther Lake) mobile processor family introduced at the beginning of the year. It takes place from March 10 to 12.

Among others, Congatec has already announced a module in the COM-HPC Client Size A form factor, the conga-HPC/cPTL. It offers an LPCAMM2 socket for an LPDDR5X memory module with a capacity of up to 32 GByte.

Overview Intel Core 2 200 with P-Cores (Bartlett Lake) (Bartlett Lake, Intel 7, LGA1700)
Processor	P-cores	Clock speed (Base / Turbo)	Cache	TDP
Core 9 273PQE	12	3.4 / 5.9 GHz	36 MByte	125 W
Core 9 273PE	12	2.3 / 5.7 GHz	36 MByte	65 W
Core 9 273PTE	12	1.4 / 5.5 GHz	36 MByte	45 W
Core 7 253PQE	10	3.5 / 5.7 GHz	33 MByte	125 W
Core 7 253PE	10	2.5 / 5.5 GHz	33 MByte	65 W
Core 7 253PTE	10	1.8 / 5.4 GHz	33 MByte	45 W
Core 5 223PQE	8	4.0 / 5.5 GHz	24 MByte	125 W
Core 5 223PE	8	2.9 / 5.4 GHz	24 MByte	65 W
Core 5 223PTE	8	2.3 / 5.4 GHz	24 MByte	45 W
Core 5 213PE	8	2.7 / 5.2 GHz	24 MByte	65 W
Core 5 213PTE	8	2.1 / 5.2 GHz	24 MByte	45 W
also available
Core 3 201E	4	3.6 / 4.8 GHz	12 MByte	60 W
Core 3 201TE	4	2.9 / 4.6 GHz	12 MByte	45 W

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