At this year's Technology Tour event, Intel gave us a detailed insight into its latest processor design, codenamed Panther Lake. Boasting a new process node to unify the best aspects of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake, the new chip also sports an updated graphics architecture, Xe3. While it's not the Celestial graphics architecture we're hoping for in the desktop graphics card market, the beefy little iGPU should be ideal for handheld gaming.
The best way to view Xe3 is to think of it as being an all-around polish and spruce up of Xe2, but one which also lays the foundation for Intel's next generation of Arc graphics processors. This is possibly why Intel settled on using the product name of 'Arc B-series' for the new iGPU, rather than giving it an entirely new name, even though the GPU architecture itself is new.
