Intel officially released the Core 3 series of low-end mobile processors previously codenamed "Wildcat Lake" on April 16, local time. This is a new product launched by Intel based on the 18A process node. It is lower in the product line level than the Core Ultra 3 series "Panther Lake" chips that also started shipping at the beginning of this year.
The Core 3 series is positioned in the consumer, enterprise and edge computing device markets that pursue cost-effectiveness. Intel compared these new processors with a five-year-old old computer equipped with the Tiger Lake platform and claimed that the new products improved single-threaded performance by 47%, multi-threaded performance by up to 41%, and GPU artificial intelligence performance by 2.8 times.
In terms of shipment arrangements, laptops equipped with Core 3 series processors will be launched starting today and will continue to be available throughout the year; while edge computing devices based on the Wildcat Lake platform are expected to begin shipping later in the second quarter.
Judging from the specific model, the flagship SKU of this series is Core 7 360, equipped with 6 cores/threads, equipped with a basic version of Intel Graphics graphics core (including 2 Xe cores), with a basic power consumption of 15 watts and a turbo frequency power consumption of 35 watts. The entry-level model in the series is the Core 3 304, which is equipped with only 5 cores and 1 Xe graphics core.
In terms of Linux ecological adaptation, Intel engineers have simultaneously promoted Linux support for the Wildcat Lake platform, and the progress is consistent with that of Panther Lake. It is expected that the support status of the upstream Linux kernel will be relatively complete. There is currently no physical Wildcat Lake hardware available to verify Linux system compatibility and performance.