The headline is odd to me given that the article spent so much time comparing it to M5 and still loses considerably to the M5 in single core (199 vs 130).

And it only wins in multi-core simply because it has 16-cores while the M5 base only has 10-cores.

When Apple launches the M5 Pro and/or Ultra this won't be the case.

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Unfortunately Intel also isn't interested in making Panther Lake:

> "We can’t completely vacate the client market," said Zinsner, but Intel is "shifting as much as we can over to data center to meet the high demand."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/core-ultra-series-3-...

So many smart best things going on on PL. Xe3 GPU looks amazing, especially the 12 core one. I love the extra low power core on the soc chiplet, allowing the main CPU chiplet to post down. Intel's EIMB is great, such an advanced interconnect for low power multi-chip. 18a and backside power. Excellent stuff!

Hard to blame them though for abandoning consumer market, like is happening with the entire rest of the computing market. Why make cores if the rest of the computer is too ghastly expensive to afford?

Note that parts of this line are still manufactured by TSMC. Intel is still not there in terms of fab self-sufficiency.

Given the timing, it's unlikely this generation of Intel integrated graphics makes use of Nvidia RTX chips. So, the gain on integrated graphics this generation seems impressive, given that graphics isn't Intel's strong suit.