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Title: Intel gives us a glimpse of its Panther Lake Core Ultra chips Post by: HCK on October 11, 2025, 04:05:05 pm Intel gives us a glimpse of its Panther Lake Core Ultra chips
<p>If Intel wants to <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/intel-confirms-it-will-cut-a-third-of-its-workforce-by-the-end-of-2025-215014365.html">come back[/url] as a chip fab, its upcoming Core Ultra series 3 laptop processors will be a crucial part of that. The company has just revealed more information about those processors (codenamed Panther Lake), that will use its <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/intels-next-gen-manufacturing-process-is-reportedly-still-struggling-184146350.html">2-nanometer 18A process[/url] and be built in the US at its Arizona plant. </p> <p>The Core Ultra series 3 system-on-chips will be utilized mainly in high-end laptops along with "gaming devices and edge solutions," Intel said. The company noted that they'd blend "Lunar Lake-level power efficiency with Arrow Lake-class performance," though it usually boasts that with all new Core chips.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>They'll offer up to 50 percent more processing performance compared to previous generations, with some versions sporting as many as 16 performance cores (P-cores), along with efficiency cores (E-cores). Chip density will improve by 30 percent, while performance per watt will rise 15 percent. </p> <p>Intel's integrated Arc GPU also sees a 50 percent performance bump compared to the last generation, with a maximum of 12 cores in high-end versions. They'll also see an updated XPU design for AI acceleration with up to 180 Platform TOPS (trillions of operations per second).</p> <p>Intel called its 18A architecture "the most advanced semiconductor node developed and manufactured in the United States," adding that it's "fully operational and set to reach high-volume production later this year." As recently as <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/intel-struggles-with-key-manufacturing-process-next-pc-chip-sources-say-2025-08-05/">two months ago[/url], however, the company was reportedly struggling with the yields it would need to even start production, let alone make a profit. </p> <p>It would be an understatement to say that Intel needs the new node to succeed. In August President Donald Trump said that the company's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-responds-to-trump-comments-that-he-should-resign-123008812.html">should resign[/url] before <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/intels-ceo-has-successfully-wooed-president-trump-035339132.html">walking that back[/url] after a successful meeting between the two. Later, Trump announced that the US government was taking a 9.9 percent ($8.9 billion stake in Intel) and last month, NVIDIA said it was throwing Intel a <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/nvidia-throws-intel-a-5-billion-lifeline-to-build-pc-and-data-center-cpus-122030186.html">$5 billion lifeline[/url] to the company forPC and data center CPUs. In its July Q2 earnings report, Intel said it <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-is-cutting-more-jobs-ceo-tan-tries-fix-manufacturing-missteps-2025-07-24/">lost $2.9 billion[/url] and <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/intel-confirms-it-will-cut-a-third-of-its-workforce-by-the-end-of-2025-215014365.html">would lay off[/url] up to 20 percent of its workforce. </p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/intel-gives-us-a-glimpse-of-its-panther-lake-core-ultra-chips-130010879.html?src=rss Source: Intel gives us a glimpse of its Panther Lake Core Ultra chips (https://www.engadget.com/computing/intel-gives-us-a-glimpse-of-its-panther-lake-core-ultra-chips-130010879.html?src=rss) |