New Delhi: Intel has recently unveiled its latest AI chips for laptops, Panther Lake, at the upcoming CES 2026 in Las Vegas. By announcing the first line of Panther Lake chips known as the Intel Core Ultra Series 3, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Client Computing Group, Intel has also stated that with the Series 3, they are laser-focused on improving power efficiency, by adding more CPU performance, bigger GPU in class of its own, more AI compute and app compatibility users can count on with x86.
Within the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 mobile lineup, the latest class of the Intel Core Ultra X9 and X7 processors come packed with the highest performing, integrated Intel Arc graphics. They are purpose-built for multitaskers that handle advanced workloads like gaming, creation and productivity on the go. The top SKUs feature up to 16 CPU cores, 12 Xe-cores and 50 NPU TOPS, by delivering up to 60% better multithread performance, over 77% faster gaming performance and up to 27 hours of battery life.
The Series 3 family also includes Intel Core processors that are designed to power mainstream mobile systems. Leveraging the same foundational architecture of Intel Core Ultra Series 3, the Intel Core lineup enables more performant and efficient laptop designs at the lower price points. Series 3 edge processors are certified for embedded and industrial use cases, including extended temperature ranges, deterministic performance, and 24/7 reliability.
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 delivers competitive advantages in critical edge AI workloads with up to 1.9x higher large language model performance, up to 2.3x better performance per watt per dollar on end-to-end video analytics and up to 4.5x higher throughput on vision language action models. The integrated AI acceleration enables superior total cost of ownership through a single system on chip solution that competes with the traditional multi-chip CPU and GPU architectures.
