During the Intel keynote hosted by CEO Pat Gelsinger, he gave the world a glimpse into the Intel Client roadmap till 2026. Meteor Lake launched final 12 months on that roadmap, and Lunar Lake, which we dived into yesterday as Intel disclosed technical particulars in regards to the upcoming platform. Pat additionally introduced a wafer on stage, Panther Lake, and he gave some further details about Intel’s forthcoming Panther Lake platform, which is predicted in 2025.
We coated Intel’s preliminary announcement in regards to the Panther Lake platform final 12 months. It is ready to be Intel’s first shopper platform utilizing its Intel 18A node. Aside from as soon as once more affirming that issues are on monitor for a 2026 launch, Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s CEO, additionally confirmed that they are going to be powering on the primary 18A wafer for Panther Lake as early as subsequent week.
One factor to contemplate from final 12 months is that Lunar Lake, which was anticipated to be constructed on the Intel 20A node, is constructed utilizing TSMC, with the Lunar Lake compute tile with Xe2-LPG graphics on TSMC N3B, and the I/O tile on TSMC N6. Pat confirmed on stage that Panther Lake shall be on Intel 18A. Still, he did not disclose which P and E cores it will use or if it will use a distinct variant of the incoming Lion Cove P-cores and Skymont E-Cores, which is coming with Lunar Lake SoCs, whereas the identical cores shall be utilized in Arrow Lake for desktop anticipated this 12 months.
As we head into the second half of 2024 and after Lunar Lake launches, Intel could disclose extra data, together with the architectural developments Panther Lake is predicted to convey. Until then, we should wait and see.
