Intel is giving us a glimpse at its Panther Lake Core Ultra chips

If Intel wants it counting As a great chipset manufacturer, the upcoming Core Ultra Series 3 laptop processors will be an important part of that. The company has just revealed more information about which processors (codenamed Panther Lake) it will use 2nm 18A process It will be built in the United States at its factory in Arizona.

Intel said the Core Ultra Series 3 system on chips will primarily be used in high-end laptops along with “gaming devices and edge solutions.” The company noted that it will blend “Lunar Lake-level power efficiency with Arrow Lake-class performance,” though it typically boasts about that with all new Core chips.

They will provide up to 50 percent higher processing performance compared to previous generations, with some versions containing up to 16 performance cores (P-cores), along with efficiency cores (E-cores). Chip density will improve by 30 percent, while performance per watt will increase by 15 percent.

Intel’s integrated Arc GPU also sees a 50 percent performance increase over the last generation, with a maximum of 12 cores in high-end versions. They will also see an updated XPU design to accelerate AI with up to 180 TOPS (trillions of operations per second).

Intel described its 18A architecture as “the most advanced semiconductor node ever developed and manufactured in the United States,” adding that it is “fully operational and scheduled to reach high-volume production later this year.” Recently Two months agoHowever, the company was reportedly struggling with the revenues it would need to even start production, let alone make a profit.

It would be an exaggeration to say that Intel needs the new node to succeed. In August, President Donald Trump named the company’s new CEO, Lip Bo Tan He should resign before Walk it again After a successful meeting between the two. Later, Trump announced that the US government would acquire a 9.9% ($8.9 billion) stake in Intel shares, and last month, Nvidia said it would divest Intel. $5 billion lifeline For PC company and CPUs for data centers. Intel said this in its July second-quarter earnings report Lost $2.9 billion and You will be laid off Up to 20 percent of its workforce.