"Panther Lake, our lead product on Intel 18A, will launch in the second half of this year. It will take everything you love about Lunar Lake, all the advances in the architecture, to the next level. We have systems already running Panther Lake, and we're sampling it across all of our major customers already."

Intel has pulled back the curtain on "Arrow Lake" mobile silicon in the U, H, and HX series for the new year, focusing on increased power profiles and less on AI. Plus: "Lunar Lake" gets vPro.

The last two laptop central processing unit (CPU) families to come from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) were more focused on efficiency and AI capabilities than raw performance. Intel launched Meteor Lake in late 2023,