Intel on Monday introduced Panther Lake, its next generation artificial intelligence focused chip for laptops, at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. The launch is a key step for the company as it looks to reassure investors about its first major product built using the new 18A manufacturing process.
Jim Johnson, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s PC group, shared technical details about the first Panther Lake processors, branded as Intel Core Ultra Series 3. These chips feature a new transistor design and a new method of delivering power, both made possible by the 18A process.
Intel chief executive Lip Bu Tan said at the event that the company has delivered on its promise to ship its first products using the 18A manufacturing process in 2025. He confirmed that Panther Lake is the first product line based on this technology.
Intel’s earlier Lunar Lake chips were largely manufactured by an overseas chip foundry. With Panther Lake, the company is moving to its own advanced process for a high volume product. The stakes are high as Intel aims to regain market share lost to Advanced Micro Devices.
Johnson said Intel has developed a separate graphics chiplet, which is a small chip combined with other small chips to create a full processor. Intel also claimed that the Core Ultra Series 3 chips offer 60 percent better performance compared with the previous Lunar Lake Series 2.
The company also plans to launch a handheld gaming platform based on the Panther Lake design later this year. Handheld gaming PCs from multiple suppliers have become more popular in recent years.
Last year, a news agency reported that Intel faced challenges with chip yields for Panther Lake, meaning the number of usable chips produced per silicon wafer. Intel executives have since said that yields are improving month by month and will support the planned launch this year.
Competition at CES remains intense. Advanced Micro Devices is set to deliver a keynote address later, where its chief executive Lisa Su is expected to announce new PC chips focused on artificial intelligence and graphics. AMD has also revealed a multibillion dollar deal with OpenAI for its next generation MI400 chips, some of which are planned for deployment this year. The deal is expected to generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang also spoke at CES on Monday. He said the company’s next generation chips are in “full production” and could deliver five times the artificial intelligence computing performance of its previous chips when powering chatbots and other AI applications.
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