Intel showed off a processor from the Panther Lake series at the Embedded World 2025 exhibition. The new product was presented to the attention of the German publication PC Games Hardware. The company gives the first look at the Panther Lake chip from both sides in detail.
For consumers, the processors codenamed Panther Lake will be known as the Core Ultra 300 series. They will combine a new computing architecture based on Panther Cove P-cores and, possibly, Darkmont E-cores, as well as a new graphics architecture called Xe3.
The Panther Lake chip shown at Embedded World 2025 belongs to the Panther Lake-H series. These processors will include up to four P-cores, up to 8 E-cores and up to four low-power LP-cores. The flagship processor models will also offer up to 12 Xe3 graphics cores. A special version of the processors with similar characteristics, but with fewer GPU cores, will be designed for gaming laptops.
The Panther Lake processor series (including all modifications) is expected to have up to 16 compute cores, up to 12 Xe3 graphics cores, support for up to 12 PCIe 5.0 lanes, and AI performance of up to 180 TOPS (trillion operations per second).
Intel confirmed that Panther Lake is built on Intel's 18A technology, which is 18 angstroms or 1.8 nm. It also uses PowerVia technology (backside power supply) and RibbonFET transistors. If the development of the chips goes according to plan, they should appear in production computers in the second half of 2025.