Maxsun brings Intel Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake to desktop motherboards with two new MoDT designs

Maxsun has become the first PC manufacturer to bring Intel's Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake mobile processors to desktop motherboards, unveiling two new MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) designs at Computex 2026. These chips are already available on laptops and Mini PCs, but the Chinese board maker is the first to start making Mobile-on-Desktop motherboards with them.

First reported by Wccftech, the more capable of the two boards is the SK-PTLNAS, built around Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake platform. While the board is designed for NAS systems, it follows the ATX standard and can be installed in any regular desktop case.

The unit shown on the Computex floor was running a Core Ultra 7 356H, an 8-core, 8-thread chip with 4Xe3 integrated GPU cores, though Maxsun confirmed the board can scale up to the flagship Core Ultra X9 388H. TDP is maintained at 65W with power delivered through a single 8-pin connector.

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The motherboard features a 6+4-phase VRM for power delivery and two SO-DIMM slots supporting up to 128GB of DDR5 memory. Storage options are generous, with a full-length PCIe Gen5 x16 slot and five M.2 slots split across PCIe Gen5 x2 and Gen4 configurations, plus three Mini SAS ports for additional storage expansion. Connectivity covers 10GbE and 2.5GbE networking, dual USB-C 40Gbps ports via an ASMedia controller, and a mix of USB 3.2 and USB 2.0 ports, both on the rear IO and onboard.

The second board is a more modest mATX design based on Intel's Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake platform, targeting lower-power builds with a maximum TDP of 28W. It runs off a 12V DC jack rather than a standard ATX power connector, uses a 4+2 phase VRM, and supports a single SO-DIMM DDR5 slot with up to 32GB of memory. Storage is trimmed to one PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slot and a single SATA III port, with USB options including dual USB 3.2 Gen1 and USB 2.0 on the rear and a USB-C 3.2 Gen2 port onboard.

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Maxsun previously released Core 200H boards with Raptor Lake mobile CPUs for SFF, workstation, and edge builds. The new Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake boards follow the same logic, just on Intel's latest mobile platforms. Maxsun has yet to share pricing and availability for the new MoDT motherboards.