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Intel’s big launch of Consumer Electronics Show 2026 These are Core Ultra Series 3 mobile chips, based on Architecture of Tiger Lake Announced in October. The biggest upgrade to the new architecture over the Core Ultra 200 lies in the new Xe3 graphics cores that promise much better performance when drawing less power than Generation Xe2 in the lunar lakeis used by some variants of the Core Ultra 200. The company briefly mentioned that there will be a future portable console platform based on Panther Lake. There are no details yet, but expect some details later this year.
A lot of the non-graphics aspects of Panther Lake include a lot of improvements over previous generations, as well as the move to Intel’s smaller (2nm) 18A processing node, which should result in the relevant chips improving overall, consuming significantly less power. The first systems featuring 3 Series processors begin shipping immediately.
New labels come with the territory. For example, it’s now known as the Series 3 – or perhaps I never called it the Series 2 last generation – and there’s a new “X” in the chipset names to indicate the integration of Arc Pro B390 graphics, which has the maximum number of Xe3 (formerly codenamed 12Xe) cores. It has an Ultra 9 and Ultra 7 edition, the latter featuring its own graphics processing unit (GPU). The performance was record high It leaked In November.
There’s a Core Ultra 5 chip with Arc B370 graphics, which isn’t marked with an X. I’m still going through the chipset to understand it, because all the gaming performance they quote is for the Arc Pro GPU; There’s no indication how all the other chips will perform. The same goes for Intel’s offering of 27 hours of battery life for video streaming; This is for an Arc Pro equipped system as well.
Intel claims much higher gaming frame rates, as long as you take advantage of the XeSS 3 upscaling and gaming at 1080p. 1080p is good, but it doesn’t take into account connectivity to a higher-resolution external display, among other things. XeSS 3 will include a multi-frame generator at launch, which uses AI to extrapolate multiple subsequent frames from a single frame.
Intel has taken a more modular approach to its GPU tiling arrangement, giving it more flexibility to scale performance up and down to reach the size, price, and power requirements of individual laptop manufacturers.
Intel says pre-orders for initial systems begin Tuesday.