Intel launched its long-awaited Panther Lake mobile processors today at CES 2026 as the Intel Core Ultra Series 3. The new chips will ship with laptops starting this week.
Jim Johnson, Intel’s Senior VP and General Manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group, said at the company’s CES press conference that the Intel 18A is at the center of the company’s efforts to re-establish its leading position in the semiconductor industry.
Intel says it is most excited about the new integrated GPU in the Intel Core Ultra Series 3, with the 12 Xe3 core GPU labeled as the Intel Arc B390.
Importantly, this new GPU will be the first integrated GPU with multiframe generation through Intel XeSS 3. Intel says this will allow a game like Battlefield 6 to run at 147 fps at 1080p at its highest graphics settings (Overkill settings).
Intel also revealed that it is developing an entire PC gaming handheld platform around the Intel Core Ultra Series 3, which its partners such as MSI, Acer and others can use to develop their own products.
This is a major challenge to AMD’s APU dominance for handhelds with its AMD Ryzen Z-series chips. details on this framework are a little light at the moment, but I can assume we’ll be hearing a lot more about this in the coming weeks and months.
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