Making a special appearance as a guest of Lenovo's CEO Yang Yuanquing at the Lenovo Tech World 2024, Intel's Pat Gelsinger pulled out a ready Panther Lake CPU. Showing what appears to be a notebook package chip, the Panther Lake-H is a direct successor to the Intel Arrow Lake-H mobile processors, which are expected to launch in Q1 2025.

According to earlier rumors, Panther Lake-H is said to pack up to 18 CPU cores, featuring six Performance, eight Efficiency, and four Low Performance cores (6P+8E+4LP). On the architecture side, Panther Lake brings new Cougar Cove P-cores, which should bring significant improvements compared to the current Lion Cove cores, while Skymont E-cores remain the same as on Arrow Lake.

Other rumors include an update to the 6nm SoC tile, improved NPU, as well as the new iGPU based on next-generation Xe3 Celestial graphics architecture.

As said, Intel has yet to launch the Arrow Lake-H mobile CPUs in early 2025, so Panther Lake-H could be coming in early 2026.