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Big positive news from Intel today for a change. Intel this morning unveiled Panther Lake or Intel Core Ultra Series 3,

the first chip built on its 18A process,

coming to laptops and handhelds in late this year or early next year. Intel says 18A-based

Panther Lake chips can deliver 50% more performance at similar power to Lunar Lake chips. Intel CTO Sachin Kadi said 18A and Panther Lake are,

quote, foundational to our future, and manufacturing is, quote, mission critical, not just for

Intel, but for the United States. Quoting the verge, Panther Lake is the most important chip

Intel has made in years. It's the one that

will tell the world if a smaller, more focused Intel can still meet or beat the competition from

Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm. It's the first on Intel's 18A process, the one Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

claimed would write the ship and make Intel a manufacturing leader before he was unceremoniously shown

the door last December. That's a lot writing on one piece of silicon when it arrives in late

2025 and early 2026. But what is Panther Lake, aka Intel Core Ultra Series 3, actually going to

bring to a laptop or handheld near you? Well, more battery life, more performance, more gaming

graphics, more affordability. That's the idea, anyhow. Oh, and Pantor Lake isn't just for thin and

light machines. This time Intel has built three different flavors of this chip, so it can

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