Almost 14 months ago, Intel launched its first multi-tile processor, codenamed Meteor Lake, for laptop PCs. Just nine months later, it was joined by the much-improved Lunar Lake chip, for the ultra-low power market and at this year's CES event, Intel briefly demonstrated its successor, Panther Lake.
As this is the first processor to be made on Intel's 18A process node, the little chip garnered quite the attention. 2024 is almost certainly a year that Intel would prefer everyone to forget about and at this year's mega-tech CES event, it's been singing its own praises regarding how it plans to bring things around in the coming months.
Top of the list, despite only appearing briefly at the conference, was Panther Lake—the architectural successor to the well-received Lunar Lake.
Interim Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus held a sample of the tiny chip aloft for the assembled crowd of journalists to see.
That was about all we really got to observe about Panther Lake, though Holthaus did her best to promote it. «Panther Lake, our lead product on Intel 18A, will launch in the second half of this year.