Intel has announced the Core Series 3 line, a budget-friendly variant of its Panther Lake processors built on the 18A process. These chips offer fewer CPU cores, Xe graphics cores, and PCIe lanes than the premium Core Ultra Series 3 family, enabling lower power consumption and cost. The six-model lineup will appear in laptops from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and others, though naming overlap between the series could create consumer confusion.
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Intel’s cheaper Panther Lake chips are for budget-friendly laptops
Intel launches Core Series 3, a cost-reduced Panther Lake variant on 18A process with fewer cores and GPU units, targeting sub-$1000 laptops against AMD's Ryzen.
Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The VergeBY sys://pipeline
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