Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU review: call it a comeback

Panther Lake CPUs successful manus astatine CES 2026.

Intel's been talking the talk for months astir its new procreation of laptop chips, the archetypal made connected its long-anticipated 18A process. 18A is meant to steer Intel backmost toward bluer waters by making its chips better, and, if possible, attracting spot designers similar Qualcomm and Nvidia to usage Intel's foundries, not conscionable its rival TSMC's. Last year's Arrow Lake chips received a mixed reception, peculiarly desktop versions. The mobile-only Lunar Lake chips, connected the different hand, were great, showing that the x86 architecture inactive has plentifulness of combat successful it against a dilatory rising tide of Arm-based Windows laptops. But Lunar Lake was a one-off that …

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