Overview

• The company outlined the Core Ultra 300 architecture at its 2025 Tech Tour in Arizona, positioning Panther Lake for AI PCs, handheld gaming devices, and edge robots.
• Initial SKUs are slated to ship before year-end 2025, followed by wider market availability beginning in January 2026.
• The SoC adopts a three-module package with a compute tile on Intel 18A, a GPU module, and a PCD platform control module, offered in three scale options that share one package pinout.
• CPU blocks pair Cougar Cove performance cores with Darkmont efficiency cores, while on-chip accelerators include the more compact NPU5 and an IPU v7.5 image processing unit.
• Xe3 ‘Celestial’ graphics arrive in 4Xe and 12Xe variants, raising per-slice capacity to six Xe cores and six ray-tracing units, with XMX delivering up to 120 TOPS and graphics gains of over 50% versus Lunar Lake plus over 40% better efficiency versus Arrow Lake H.