Intel appears set to improve thin and light laptops to take on Apple as leak reveals powerful 16-core Panther Lake chip

There have been a number of new leaks recently about Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake processors for laptops. The latest leaks reveal some alleged chip configurations of the CPUs that will follow Lunar Lake (the next generation of mobile processors due out later in 2024).

Keep in mind this is just a rumor, but as posted by Jaykihn on X, there is a die configuration image plus some core counts of Panther Lake U-series (low-power) and H-series (high-performance) processors. The latter top-end CPU runs with 16 cores (4 performance, 8 efficiency, 4 low-power) and 12 Xe3 graphics cores (that’s Celestial – the successor to next-gen Battlemage, which is in Lunar Lake).