Some time ago at EmbeddedWorld2025, Intel publicly displayed a sample of Panther Lake. Participants and industry organizations believe that the chips displayed by Intel belong to the Panther Lake-H (PTL-H) mobile platform and belong to the Core Ultra300 series.
Considering that there were earlier rumors that Intel encountered problems in the development of the Intel18A process that may lead to the delay of Panther Lake, this move seems to be a response to the outside world.
At a recent event, Intel showed a PPT with a roadmap for the latest Core Ultra series, showing that Panther Lake will be launched in the first quarter of 2026. This is somewhat different from what Intel said about "release in 2025." The main reason is that Panther Lake's "EEP (Early Enablement Program)" will be launched within this year, but it will only be supplied to OEMs and the corresponding AIPC will be launched, and large-scale shipments will have to wait until January 2026.
Although there are similarities with LunarLake, PantherLake is not a direct successor, at least it will not use the design of encapsulated memory. NovaLake, which appeared later, has no similar plans. Panther Lake will use CougarCove architecture P-Core and Skymont architecture E-Core, which does not support hyper-threading technology. The core display is based on the Xe3-LPG architecture, which is the same as ArcCelestial independent graphics. In addition, both SoC and GPU will use new modules.
Previously, Intel Vice President of Investor Relations John Pitzer clarified the issue of low yield rate of Intel 18A process at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference, saying that Panther Lake is still scheduled to be released in the second half of this year, the release time has not changed, and he is very confident in the progress of the current project.