Intel Demos Panther Lake CPUs at Computex

While Intel is touting the launch of its two Battlemage Pro GPUs at Computex, the chip maker also has samples of its much-anticipated Core Ultra 300 (Panther Lake) chips on hand, powering demo systems. That’s an improvement from Embedded World, when the samples were on display without PCs. Some of the info is familiar: Intel says Panther Lake offers similar power efficiency as Lunar Lake but better performance, like Arrow Lake.

That sounds great, but for now, we’re hearing more about the processor than seeing it in action. Even on the demo systems, for example, performance numbers were in short supply. The samples completed AI workloads, edited images, and handled other tasks smoothly, but benchmark scores aren’t on the table yet.

John Burek, an executive editor for our sibling publication PCMag, had a close-up look at the samples in Taipei. Although Panther Lake chips likely won’t ...