Monday, March 17th 2025
Intel China Presentation Slide Indicates Early 2026 Volume Launch of Panther Lake
According to an attendee of a recent Intel AI presentation, company representatives revealed a release timeline for next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" mobile processor family. Team Blue's China office appears to be courting users of DeepSeek R1, as evidenced by meng59739449's sharing of a processor product roadmap (machine translated by VideoCardz). A volume launch of Core Ultra 300 "Panther Lake-H" series seems to be on the cards for Q1 2026. Earlier this month, an Intel executive insisted that Panther Lake was on track for a second half of 2025 roll out. Lately, industry moles have alleged that a "problematic 18A node" process has caused delays across new generation product lines.
Team Blue watchdogs reckon that high volume manufacturing (HVM) of Panther Lake chips will kick off in September. By October, an Early Enablement Program (EEP) is expected to start—with samples sent off to OEMs for full approval. Industry experts believe that Intel will following a familiar pattern of "announcing the processor in the second half of the prior year, but ramping up mass production in the following year." Previous generation mobile CPU platforms—Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake—received similar treatment in the recent past. Last week, a Panther Lake-H (PTL-H) sample was on general display at Embedded World 2025—the German office is similarly engaged in hyping up the AI-crunching capabilities of roadmapped products.
Sources:
meng59739449 Tweet, VideoCardz, DLCompare
Team Blue watchdogs reckon that high volume manufacturing (HVM) of Panther Lake chips will kick off in September. By October, an Early Enablement Program (EEP) is expected to start—with samples sent off to OEMs for full approval. Industry experts believe that Intel will following a familiar pattern of "announcing the processor in the second half of the prior year, but ramping up mass production in the following year." Previous generation mobile CPU platforms—Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake—received similar treatment in the recent past. Last week, a Panther Lake-H (PTL-H) sample was on general display at Embedded World 2025—the German office is similarly engaged in hyping up the AI-crunching capabilities of roadmapped products.
17 Comments on Intel China Presentation Slide Indicates Early 2026 Volume Launch of Panther Lake
18A would be 1.8nm.
Ryzen 9800x3D is 4nm.
I think you have no idea what you're talking about, chips below 5nm are extremely difficult to make.
So 3nm is already a success, it's impossible to go from 3nm to 1nm.
its 1.8nm
I’ll show part of the other article:
Since Intel itself already declared, that Panther Lake will be de-facto a paper-launch in December (legally holding their road-maps…), with volume only coming by mid of 2026.
So this news' head-line of Panther Lake being 'early 2026 volume', is actually the opposite of a slight against Intel as you put it, as it indicates actual volume way earlier than initially expected, like 6 months earlier …No, it isn't. Intel itself delayed from 1H25, then middle of 2025 (as Gelsinger himself declared back then), to now 2H25 in January, while recently signalling, that actual volume might come only by the middle of 2026 – This news here is a net-positive, you have to read is as such. Since it indicates a actual pull in of volume by half a year …
Just a sound advice: Leave feelings™ out of it – Use logic instead. Better yet, use logos!
You can take “launch in 2025, volume in 2026” from this article, (Published? April 3rd 2024):
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/intel-18a-based-cpus-will-ramp-to-high-volume-in-2026
pr men h2 2024 we do 20A, and then we go hard on 18A 2025
Reality outsource whole thing and it's kinda meh
pr men h2 2025 we will have it 18a
pr 2026 you say.
Intel 10 late
intel 7 300w overheating disaster
intel 4, 3 skipped
intel 18 delayed 2 years now ? Announced too early, I guess
Don't get me wrong, if Intel deliver leap frog approach, it will be still impressive vs a giant like TSMC.
zen6 in 2026 is rumoured to still not be N2 TSMC, which will be comparative to 18A ( gaafet).
If intel pumps out its A18 premium GPUs and CPUs around 2027 will be awesome.
So if we get 2028 good cpus and gpus with generational leap i wull be happy but it will be time
PS6 will come out and new upgrade cyrcle begins.
So we can expect some N2 TSCM/ 18A intel parts 2027 at best
then TSMC will do that whole back delivery thing
N2B
And yet again with amount of Monopoles like TSMC and greedvidia selling pc and don't caring about tech till market will get in healthier state will be better I guess.