Intel announces next-gen Core Ultra 300 'Panther Lake' CPUs launch in 2H 2025

Intel has officially announced that its next-generation Core Ultra 300 series "Panther Lake" CPUs will be launching in 2H 2025, with a volume supply planned for early 2026, with the new processors made on its bleeding-edge in-house Intel 18A process node.

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Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPUs are the first to debut on its new 18A process node, which is a huge advancement over its previous-gen in-house Intel 3 process node. We have new packaging technologies including BSPDN (Backside Power Delivery) which will move the power delivery process to the backside of the wafer.

Panther Lake CPUs will feature new Cougar Cove P-Cores with Skymont E-Cores, with Intel expected to use 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores for mobile platforms, but the mobile GPU is the highlight here: new Xe3 "Celestial" GPU architecture that will reportedly feature up to 12 Xe3 GPU cores packaged in a chiplet standard, ready to compete against AMD's new RDNA 3.5-based Strix Point and Strix Halo APUs.

The main chip will feature 5 dies with two larger portions for the compute and GPU tiles, while the other dies house the IO, SoC controllers, and a dummy die. Intel's new Core Ultra 300 series "Panther Lake" CPUs will scale from 15W to 45W, depending on which SKU.

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Intel's next-gen Core Ultra 300 series "Panther Lake" CPUs will be the successor to Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, where Panther Lake is expected to offer the best of both its successors -- Arrow Lake with "performance" and Lunar Lake with "power efficiency".

After Panther Lake, we can expect Intel to launch Nova Lake, which will be hitting the market sometime in late 2026.