Last month, Intel revealed architectural details of its next-generation client processor, codenamed Panther Lake, the Core Ultra (3rd generation), and confirmed it had entered production. The new product will provide computing power for a wide range of consumer and commercial AI PCs, gaming devices, and edge computing solutions.
Intel has confirmed that Jim Johnson, General Manager of the Client Computing Group (CCG), will highlight the next-generation Intel PCs, edge solutions, and the AI experiences brought by the Panther Lake Core Ultra (3rd generation) processor at CES 2026 on January 5th at 3 PM Pacific Time (January 6th at 7 AM Beijing Time).
The Core Ultra 300 series is designed solely for laptops, while desktops will respond with Arrow Lake Refresh, launching three Core Ultra 200K Plus series processors. AMD will launch new Zen 5 architecture products, with the Ryzen AI HX 400 series codenamed Gorgon Point, to counter the challenge from the Core Ultra 300 series.
Panther Lake is Intel's first product built on Intel's 18A process technology, representing the most advanced semiconductor process developed and manufactured by Intel. It introduces a scalable multi-chiplet architecture, providing partners with unprecedented flexibility across different form factors, market segments, and price ranges.
It offers Lunar Lake-level energy efficiency and Arrow Lake-level performance.
It can be equipped with up to 16 new performance cores (P-cores) and energy-efficient cores (E-cores), delivering over 50% performance improvement over the previous generation of CPUs.
The new Intel Xeon GPU features up to 12 Xe cores, offering over 50% better graphics performance than the previous generation.
A balanced XPU design enables a new level of AI acceleration, with platform AI performance reaching up to 180 TOPS (trillion operations per second).
Beyond the PC field, Panther Lake will extend to edge applications, including robotics. The new Intel Robotics AI software suite and reference boards provide customers with advanced AI capabilities, enabling them to quickly innovate and develop cost-effective robots, and leverage Panther Lake to simultaneously achieve control and AI/sensing functions.
