Intel demos Panther Lake chips, promises Arrow Lake performance with Lunar Lake efficiency

The big picture: Intel unveiled its next-generation Core Ultra 300 "Panther Lake" laptop processors on the opening day of Computex 2025. Built on the company's 18A process node, the chips use a five-tile design that includes Cougar Cove performance cores, Darkmont and Skymont efficient cores, and an Xe3 Celestial integrated GPU.

Intel did not share performance benchmarks for the new chips but claimed they will deliver Arrow Lake-level performance with Lunar Lake-level efficiency. The company also confirmed that the processors will include next-gen XMX integrated graphics matching the performance of Lunar Lake's GPU.

The exhibition included a Panther Lake laptop running DaVinci Resolve, showcasing on-device AI video processing. The laptop processor had 16 cores, though Intel withheld detailed specifications. Online speculation suggests a configuration of four performance cores, eight efficient cores, and four low-power efficient cores.

The demo CPU featured a 2.0GHz base clock, 3.0GHz boost ...