Intel is showing off its new Panther Lake laptop CPUs , set to start appearing in devices in early 2026. They’re pretty darn exciting for a lot of reasons, but gamers in particular will be eyeing up those Xe3 integrated graphics that come in 4-core and supercharged 12-core variants. Intel fellow Tom Peterson had a chat with Adam all about it in PCWorld’s latest YouTube video .
The 12-core version of the Panther Lake iGPU is obviously the one to watch, jumping core count over Lunar Lake by 50 percent and giving a huge graphics boost to thin-and-light laptops (and possibly even PC gaming handhelds, currently dominated by AMD’s Ryzen Z series). In addition to the usual power boost that newer chips get, the Xe3 series is getting new intelligent bias control powers for more game-specific r