Panther Lake, arriving in the second half of this year as the successor to Arrow Lake-H unveiled at CES, is set to be built on Intel's flagship 18A process technology and is expected to come in three variants—with the top-end configuration featuring 16 CPU cores (likely based on Cougar Cove and Darkmont) paired with 12 Xe3 (Celestial) GPU cores.
Wildcat Lake, rumoured to power Intel’s next-generation N-series chips for lightweight laptops, Chromebooks, mini-PCs, and embedded devices, appears to offer a single variation featuring six cores (2P + 4LPE), with its Compute Tile likely housing the two performance cores and the low-power cores situated in the SoC Tile.
The leak hints at a potential capability of 40 AI TOPS, paving the way for innovative edge and mobile machine learning applications.
Lunar Lake—celebrated for its record-setting integrated GPU performance—looks like it will be a “one-off”, as the cost-prohibitive nature of integrating memory directly onto the CPU die prevented any standardisation.
Rumours continue to circulate about an 18-core variant of Panther Lake, though Jaykihn has yet to confirm the exact specifications of these SKUs.