Overview

• Intel says Panther Lake (Core Ultra Series 3) is already in production, with first units due before year-end 2025 and broad laptop availability expected in January 2026.
• The modular Foveros design puts the compute tile on Intel 18A while the platform controller and the 12‑core Xe3 GPU tile are built externally at TSMC.
• Across generations, Intel claims roughly 50% gains for CPU multi-thread and integrated GPU performance versus Lunar Lake, with up to 10% lower power than Lunar Lake and up to 40% lower than Arrow Lake in some metrics.
• Graphics move to Intel Arc Xe3 with configurations up to 12 cores and hardware ray tracing, plus new features such as multiframe generation and cloud-delivered precompiled shaders to reduce stutter.
• The platform adds an NPU 5 rated up to 50 TOPS, updated media and image processing, Wi‑Fi 7 Release 2 support, Bluetooth 6, and Thunderbolt 4 rather than integrated Thunderbolt 5.