Wednesday, October 16th 2024
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Holds Up a Next-Gen "Panther Lake" Mobile Processor
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was a special guest at Lenovo Tech World 2024, the computing giant's annual showcase of its latest innovations. The opening keynote address saw Gelsinger make a special appearance to greet Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing, but he wasn't alone. In his pocket was a next-generation "Panther Lake" processor. This chip appears to be an H-segment package for mainstream notebooks, which makes the chip a direct successor to the "Arrow Lake-H" mobile processor that comes out in Q1-2025.
According to leaks from reliable sources, "Panther Lake-H" is said to come in CPU core-counts of up to 18. That's 6P+8E+4LP. It sees the reintroduction of low-power island E-cores located in the SoC tile. The six P-cores are "Cougar Cove," which could feature a generational IPC uplift over the current "Lion Cove," while the current "Skymont" E-cores are carried forward into "Panther Lake." The SoC tile could see an upgrade to a newer foundry node from its current 6 nm on "Arrow Lake," to accommodate the low-power island E-cores, and possibly a faster NPU. The iGPU of "Panther Lake" is allegedly based on the next-generation Xe3 "Celestial" graphics architecture. This faster iGPU, along with a faster NPU, low-power island E-cores, and slightly faster P-cores, could be what "Panther Lake-H" brings to the table. Given that "Arrow Lake-H" sees an early-2025 introduction, we don't expect "Panther Lake-H" out till at least 2026.
Sources:
Lenovo Tech World 2024 (YouTube), VideoCardz
According to leaks from reliable sources, "Panther Lake-H" is said to come in CPU core-counts of up to 18. That's 6P+8E+4LP. It sees the reintroduction of low-power island E-cores located in the SoC tile. The six P-cores are "Cougar Cove," which could feature a generational IPC uplift over the current "Lion Cove," while the current "Skymont" E-cores are carried forward into "Panther Lake." The SoC tile could see an upgrade to a newer foundry node from its current 6 nm on "Arrow Lake," to accommodate the low-power island E-cores, and possibly a faster NPU. The iGPU of "Panther Lake" is allegedly based on the next-generation Xe3 "Celestial" graphics architecture. This faster iGPU, along with a faster NPU, low-power island E-cores, and slightly faster P-cores, could be what "Panther Lake-H" brings to the table. Given that "Arrow Lake-H" sees an early-2025 introduction, we don't expect "Panther Lake-H" out till at least 2026.
21 Comments on Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Holds Up a Next-Gen "Panther Lake" Mobile Processor
That's what she said.
Answer: most of them, especially if we hoomAns keep building new chip fabs everywhere, which require a buttload of water to operate :)
My next box going to be AMD, I'm tired of just being left behind now, Intel you had a great run but your current market ideas are dead and Pat really needs to be fired.
I'm still running a Core i9 9900 KF the last pure 8 core 16 thread CPU and it still does the job. Fast and works gaming is awesome.
Even with the Ultra new ones do not see a pure 8 or 16 core 32 thread monster. Nope I think they even dropped hyperthreading now. /sigh.
It's the lake I think of most when I consider Intel.
I can see it now - the Intel 'Dead Sea' AI Core Ultra Maxxx AI 9 499KS 38.25 core processor with AI accelleration.
Seems now the only Good Desktop CPU's they make is workstation CPU's like a xeon but they are over 6 grand.
Intel really needs to make a 16 core or heck even a 24 core P core monster. And it does not even have to run at fast speed. a Pure 16 core P core running at 4.5 ghz would complete with AMD today.