Intel Panther Lake-H High-Res Die Shots Reveal 18A CPU Design

In case you missed the memo, Intel's been kicking butt in the mobile arena lately. Its Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors offered a great blend of CPU compute, GPU horsepower, and excellent power efficiency, and the latest Core Ultra 300 "Panther Lake" chips continue that trend, ramping up performance in every area while maintaining fantastic power efficiency. If you're curious how the sausage is made, Kurnal over on Xwitter has posted up annotated die shots of the top configuration of Panther Lake.

If you don't recall, Intel's Core Ultra 300 series can come in a variety of configurations ranging from one with just six CPU cores all the way to 16 CPU cores and 12 Xe3 GPU cores. The one that Kurnal has shaved the top off of appears to be the top-end configuration used in the Core Ultra X9 388H. He's ground down ...