Becomes. Sometimes a person simply slaps or clicks something before it clicks in his head. Of course, the message quickly disappeared from the profile, but it was too late. What the internet takes once, it can’t take back.
So it happened that a graphics engineer accidentally published plans for a new Panther Lake processor architecture including an integrated graphics card. Of course, the editors at TomsHardware noticed and took a screenshot before the post disappeared. In this way, we learned what the employee is currently working on and what architectures are planned. The list includes the already known Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake, as well as IGPs of the Battlemage and Celestial architectures, and finally the mysterious Panther Lake, which should receive IGP Xe3, which means the Celestial architecture. Panther could arrive probably sometime around 2024 or 2025.
Regarding the timeline, the editors at TomsHardware speculate that since Panther Lake is the furthest product, it could already be made using the 20A process. This is a process where the physical parameters of the chip can no longer be measured precisely in nanometers, but in “angstroms” (1 angstrom = 0.1 nanometer). They also expect massive energy savings from this process, up to 50% compared to Alder Lake. However, we have to wait a few years to see how it will actually turn out. The closest processor to hit us will be of the Meteor Lake architecture and is expected in the second half of this year, although there have been rumors that Meteors will be cancelled.
