Overview

• Marketed as Core Ultra Series 3, Panther Lake is Intel’s first large‑scale client platform with an 18A compute tile, using a Foveros multi‑chiplet design with some tiles built by TSMC.
• Intel outlined three mobile configurations: an 8‑core part and two 16‑core parts, pairing Cougar Cove P‑cores with Darkmont E‑cores and LP E‑cores, and offering Xe3 GPUs with 4 or 12 cores.
• The NPU 5 targets up to 50 TOPS, and Intel cites platform‑level AI acceleration up to roughly 180 TOPS, alongside Wi‑Fi 7 R2 and Thunderbolt 4 support.
• Company figures claim up to ~10% better single‑thread performance, ~50% higher multi‑thread and GPU performance, and lower power versus Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake, pending independent tests.
• Intel says Fab 52 is fully operational and ramping 18A this year, with initial Panther Lake shipments before the end of 2025 and a broader rollout in January 2026; an 18A server line (Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’) is slated for the first half of 2026.