Overview

• Panther Lake is Intel’s first client platform on the 18A process, combining RibbonFET and PowerVia, with Fab 52 in Chandler, Arizona declared fully operational and set for high‑volume 18A production this year.
• Intel detailed three mobile configurations using Foveros: an 8‑core (4 P + 4 LP E) with 4 Xe3 GPU cores; a 16‑core (4 P + 8 E + 4 LP E) with 4 Xe3; and a 16‑core with 12 Xe3 and 12 ray‑tracing units, with the compute tile on 18A and some tiles built at TSMC.
• The company claims up to about 10% higher single‑thread performance versus Lunar Lake, up to 50% better multi‑thread performance versus Lunar and Arrow Lake, roughly 50% faster integrated graphics, and about 10% lower power than Lunar Lake.
• New IP includes the Xe3 integrated GPU, Intel NPU 5 rated up to 50 TOPS, an updated media engine with 10‑bit AVC/AV1 encode/decode, an IPU 7.5 image processor, and XeSS Multi‑Frame Generation to boost perceived frame rates.
• Platform I/O features Wi‑Fi 7 Release 2 and Bluetooth Core 6.0 with up to four Thunderbolt 4 ports; Intel says production ramps in 2025 with the first SKU shipping before year‑end and broad product launch planned for CES in January 2026.