After going in-depth on its Panther Lake series CPUs late last year, Intel is finally ready to start rolling them out. At CES 2026, the company announced 14 SKUs to kick off the Core Ultra Series 3 generation, including three SKUs that have the new X9 or X7 designation to note a larger included GPU with 12 Xe3 cores (read our deep dive on the Xe3 graphics architecture).
Intel already revealed the top-line specs for the Panther Lake range in October, but now we have a more comprehensive breakdown of all of the options that will be available later this month. Intel says that Panther Lake systems will be available to preorder tomorrow, January 6, with global availability starting on January 27 and continuing throughout the first half of the year.
