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Every sample is valuable for the first product on a new node.
To make the most of limited silicon, we test extensively at the die and package level while also enabling de-featured units that allow some validation around defects.
From The Making of Panther Lake documentary: ms.spr.ly/6015aj12b
PC Build in 90: @StarforgePCs Voyager IV KITTY Edition. Custom UV printing sets this gaming PC apart, while a Bitspower liquid cooler helps the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus purr.
New Intel Arc graphics drivers are available! The latest 32.0.101.9033 release introduces Game On Driver support for Control Resonant. Grab it here: ms.spr.ly/6010a9M9w
Now available: The latest update to Intel PresentMon reduces scheduling overhead to cut CPU use and introduces a new gaming experience overlay highlighting metrics for motion and animation quality.
v2.6.0 is free to download here: ms.spr.ly/6012ag5Do
ALT Two performance monitors for Intel Arc A750 Graphics. Left: 138 FPS (avg), 112 FPS (99%), 97.1% GPU utilization, 70 C, 172W. Right: 53 FPS (avg), 44 FPS (99%), 76 C, 173W. Both show various GPU stats & line graphs.
Power on might be the most magical moment in processor development. It’s the first time running on real silicon, kicking off a race to enable every part of the SoC and lay the foundation for broader validation efforts to follow.
From The Making of Panther Lake documentary: ms.spr.ly/6014aj14n
PC Build in 90: Can @robeytech assemble the Maingear MG-1 Sapphire better than the @maingear builders? It features the Intel Core Ultra 270K Plus and MSI Z890 Gaming Plus motherboard.
Watch Intel Live ModWorkshop live on most Fridays at noon PT: ms.spr.ly/6016abQjE
Bugs in RTL code can require costly hardware changes to fix.
That makes for high-stakes development and requires extensive quality checks before a design is committed to silicon.
From The Making of Panther Lake documentary: ms.spr.ly/6019abELW
90 sec build: CLEAN ABS Kaze II case @ABSGamingPC with Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus on MSI Pro Z890-A. This $1900 gaming PC was built on Intel Live Mod Workshop. Watch the next live show 9/10 at noon PT: ms.spr.ly/6018akhI4
How do we decide what makes the cut for a new processor?
Every feature has a cost, from dollars to die area to schedule. The challenge is balancing those trade-offs against the value it delivers.
From The Making of Panther Lake documentary: ms.spr.ly/6011apFGL
What’s it like being customer zero on Intel 18A?
The Making of Panther Lake brings you behind the scenes to see how we turned a concept into reality and overcame the challenge of building and scaling the first product on a new node. Watch the documentary: ms.spr.ly/6016aP4Y2
Get ready for an exclusive look behind the scenes of developing Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. The Making of Panther Lake documentary premieres August 26 at 12pm PT on Intel Tech YouTube.
Join us for the watch party on the Intel Insiders Discord: ms.spr.ly/6018aOcQr
The latest @Acer laptops showcase the versatility of Intel Core Ultra Series 3. From a sub-kilogram ultraportable to a thin-and-light with the big 12Xe GPU to gaming designs with discrete graphics, which is your favorite from our hands-on video? ms.spr.ly/6014azj8O
ALT Acer laptop on a table between two others, partially shown. Caption reads \"Swift, Predator & Nitro Powered by Panther Lake\"
We love finding unique features under the hood of new laptops. This video highlights the two-sided motherboard that maximizes space in the @Asus ExpertBook Ultra, then explores a broader family of Panther Lake systems from gaming laptops to NUCs: ms.spr.ly/6010ayBl0
ALT Hand holding a laptop motherboard with an Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processor.
Want a big screen without bloating your backpack? The @LGE_Global gram Pro 16 and 17 combine Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors with an Aerominum alloy chassis that's stiff and lightweight. Check out our hands-on: ms.spr.ly/6013aEW9F
ALT Photo of an LG Gram Pro laptop with the caption \"Intel Panther Lake For the (LG) gram\"
Let's hear it for laptops that are simple to service and repair!
We look inside the @HP EliteBook X G2i powered by Panther Lake to see how easily you can swap the keyboard, battery, and cooling system.
Laptops, NUCs, and motherboards. @ASUS showed off different ways you can take advantage of Intel Core Ultra processors at Computex this year. Check those out here: ms.spr.ly/6019vfAAP
ALT Two by two grid of photos of laptops and PC components. Text overlay says \"New ASUS & ROG Laptops & NUCs From Mainstream to Extreme\"
We had a good look at @msigaming's Titan 18 HX Draco Edition gaming laptop and the MEG Z890 Ace Draco Epic 40th Anniversary motherboard, and so can you in this video: ms.spr.ly/6016vfAA8
ALT A motherboard with a signature on it. Text overlay says, \"Limited Edition Laptop and Mobo How To Train Your Draco\"
AI Playground now supports @Phison_USA Pascari aiDAPTIV™ SSD model caching, which lets you run very large MOE models like GPT-OSS 120B on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 PCs with 32GB of memory.
Check out our demo video: piped.video/QcZ01VCCxVo
ALT Text overlays a render of a laptop. Text says "Phison | Intel. 120B to 32GB. Run massive models on AI PCs via Pascari aiDAPTIV SSD"
Thinner. Lighter. Yet, still impressively powerful. The new @Dell XPS 13 with Intel Core Series 3 processors is really looking sharp. ms.spr.ly/6010v252Y
ALT Photo of a laptop. Text overlay says \"XPS 13 with Wildcat Lake Premium Laptop That Costs Less\"
Whether it's gaming, working, studying, or whatever else you may be computing on the go, Acer showed us new devices that can handle it at Computex last month.
Check out our video tour from the show floor: ms.spr.ly/6011vFrCt
There were some incredible real-world tech and healthcare demos of intelligent machines built on Intel Core Ultra, Arc B70, and OpenVINO at Computex this year. See them in action: ms.spr.ly/6017vxmB5
ALT Side by side gallery showing a rehabilitive exoskeleton and two robots. Text overlays the image saying \"Panther Lake at the Edge Powers Exoskeleton, Robots & Vision\"
We have more on TAP from Computex 2026. Enter the cozy Arc suite for an exclusive media briefing from the man himself, who explains Intel Arc G-Series processors and why XeSS Multi-Frame Generation is such a good fit for gaming handhelds: ms.spr.ly/6014vxl7G
The Z890 Taichi 10th Anniversary Special Edition from @ASRockInfo blends modern engineering with classic aesthetic. Watch what went into it in our Computex coverage from June: ms.spr.ly/6019vsaGF
ALT A motherboard being held. Text overlay says \"ASRock Taichi Turns Ten Classic Design, Modern Features\"
We collaborated with @MSIGaming on the Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld, including a redesigned cooler and board layout for Intel Arc G-Series processors that enable more performance in a small footprint. See more in our deep dive from Taipei: ms.spr.ly/6016vsaen
ALT A person holds an uncased handheld system board and motions over it. Text overlay says \"Under the Hood of the MSI Claw with Intel Arc G-Series\"
SuperClaw takes the idea of personalized agentic assistants from OpenClaw and brings enhancements to security, privacy, and data control to meet the needs of businesses. Check out this demo video: ms.spr.ly/6013vsa4H
ALT A tower PC and a laptop side by side. Text overlays the image that says \"SuperClaw Agentic AI Running Locally on Arc Pro and Core Ultra\"
There's a story behind every new processor. Coming soon: an inside look at the people, challenges, and engineering involved in creating Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, codenamed Panther Lake.
Some midweek motivation from this quick and clean rig build that @CyberpowerPC helped our Intel Live! Mod Workshop put together on stream.
Catch the next show on Monday, June 29!
discord.gg/inteltwitch.tv/intel
More affordable mainstream laptops don't have to be stuck with aging hardware and dated designs. This deep dive explains how we took inspiration from the mobile phone ecosystem to raise the bar for new notebooks with Intel Core Series 3 processors: ms.spr.ly/6016vWLZI
Get a deeper look into the hardware and software engineering needed to make Intel Arc G-series processors the best they can be for handheld gaming. ms.spr.ly/6013vlmUX
ALT Alejandro Hoyos and Tom \"TAP\" Petersen are talking. Text overlays the image saying \"Intel Arc G-Series Engineering and Performance Deep Dive\"
Did you miss out on the cool things shown off at Computex a couple weeks ago? This first look at Intel Arc G-Series gaming handhelds kicked off our coverage of the event: ms.spr.ly/6016vcoUE
ALT Four different PC handhelds arrayed in a 2x2 grid. Text overlays the image saying \"Intel Arc G-Series is Panther Lake for Handhelds\"
The team at @AorusOfficial set another extreme memory overclocking world record, this time reaching 13,556 MT/s at Computex on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor. Great work by HiCookie, Sergmann, Saltycroissant, Madness777, and Exaberries! ms.spr.ly/6014vgFhO
We've added support for 7 more games to the Intel Binary Optimization Tool, and the difference may be enough to improve your movement tech, survival strategies, or spacefaring conflicts.
Read more here: ms.spr.ly/6014v59p2
ALT Bar chart summarizing performance gains with Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processors using the Intel Binary Optimization Tool, averaging +12% performance
Alex and crew did a great job covering Computex 2026 on the ground in Taipei, and they had a little fun too. Check out the blooper reel below and follow the link for a playlist of all our videos from the show: ms.spr.ly/6019v5dkR
Get ready for some seriously cool rigs! We traveled all the way to Taiwan to bring you the latest in tech from Computex 2026, and now we’re taking a detour to focus on the wildest and most creative PC mods we saw on the show floor.
In 30 seconds, we take a quick look at three new Intel Arc G3 gaming handhelds on display at Computex 2026: the Acer Predator Atlas 8; the MSI Claw 8; and the OneXPlayer 3. Which one do you want?
The new @ASUS_ROG Strix Scar 18 goes all‑in on performance at Computex 2026 with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor and RTX 5090 GPU that can combine for 320W of sustained power thanks in part to massive vapor chamber cooling and liquid metal.
This limited edition @MSIGaming Titan 18 HX Draco Edition laptop is packed to the gills for high-performance gaming and more: Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor, 4K 240Hz mini‑LED display at 1,100 nits, tons of memory and storage capacity, and loads of ports.
The new @Dell XPS 13 on display at Computex 2026 is the thinnest and lightest iteration ever at 12.7 mm thin and only 1 kg. It’s powered by Intel Core Series 3 processors codenamed Wildcat Lake and brings premium XPS materials and features to a more accessible price.
This humanoid robotics demo at Computex 2026 shows how Aaeon is combining Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors and Intel Arc Pro B70 GPUs in a larger AI system to improve upon existing rules-based automation for PCB inspection.
The new @PredatorGaming Atlas 8 handheld at Computex 2026 pairs our Intel Arc G3 Extreme processor with an AeroBlade fan featuring 89 ultra-thin metal blades. It also has dual-mode triggers that toggle between micro‑switch precision for shooters and analog control for racing.
Intel Core Series 3 laptops from the Intel Showcase at Computex 2026: MSI Modern 16S, Asus ExpertBook B5 Flip, Acer Swift Air 14, HP Omnibook 5 14, Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5, and Dell XPS 13. Learn more about Wildcat Lake in this Talking Tech deep dive: ms.spr.ly/6019vd0kB
Check out this Circulus Pion robot at Computex 2026. It’s running on a Panther Lake processor, using P-cores for real-time control, E-cores to collect sensor data, the GPU for vision-language-action models, and the NPU for continuous perception.
At Computex 2026, Gigabyte’s Z890 @AorusOfficia Elite Duo X motherboard brings a dual-DIMM design with 4R CUDIMM support enabling up to 128GB per module at speeds up to 8,000 MT/s and beyond. Great example of what’s possible with our amazing Arrow Lake memory controller.
.@ASRockInfo celebrates 10 years of Taichi with the Z890 Taichi 10th Anniversary Edition, a modern board with classic design cues, a Memory OC Shield for cleaner DRAM signaling, easy‑release PCIe, BIOS flashback, and an ecosystem of matching components. See it at Computex 2026:
Rehab robots need real‑time sensing and motion prediction without reaching out to the cloud. Powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and OpenVINO, this exoskeleton runs its AI at the edge, balancing joint‑level inference to support every step.
SuperClaw can bring hybrid agentic AI to life on your own hardware with zero token cost. This demo from Computex 2026 shows Qwen3-Coder-Next running across four Intel Arc Pro B70 GPUs along with a 35B model running locally on an Intel Core Ultra Series 3 laptop.
For Intel Arc G-Series handhelds, having E-cores in the performance cluster provides access to shared L3 cache, which is great for games, and running them there frees up more power for the GPU to pump out frames. Intel’s Nish Neelalojanan explains: