The Intel N250 would be the entry model for “Twin Lake”, a new processor platform that the chip giant would be preparing for motorization. low consumption and price of computers.

Intel introduced the Alder Lake-N platform at CES 2023 to cover the entry-level line of PCs and fill the gap left by the discontinued Celeron and Pentium solutions, but still seen in notebooks today, the Mini-Basic. PCs or Chromebooks. According to (unconfirmed) information that hit the internet this week, Intel is preparing for a takeover.

“Twin Lake” would be the code name for the architecture that Intel would end the Pentius era for good. As with Alder Lake-N, the platform would stand out due to its low power consumption and the lowest price of any Intel CPU. Compared to the hybrid architecture used by all new Intel processors today, which combine P and E cores, Twin Lake would only use efficient cores.

The platform would offer several models starting with this Intel N250, just the base version of the platform four processor cores. Its buffer and maximum frequency are unknown, with the base clock being said to be 1.2GHz.

Its cores are said to be the same ‘Gracemont’ from Alder Lake-N which it would be a bit demotivating whereas Intel has more advanced development with “Crestmont” cores in the current Core Ultra 100 “Meteor Lake” lineup, while the upcoming Core Ultra 200V “Lunar Lake-MX” processors should feature efficient “Skymont” cores.

Technical characteristics of Alder Lake-N

This means that performance takes a back seat here and the goal is: ultra-low consumption and the cheapest price of all Intel processors to complete the elimination of Pentium and Celeron stocks still seen in some retail channels. Take all of this information so far as hearsay. It is certain that by 2025, Intel will recover its entry platform that allows it to produce notebooks or mini-PCs at very low costs for computing tasks.