{"id":395967,"date":"2026-04-16T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395967\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:36:10","slug":"intel-refreshes-non-ultra-core-cpus-with-new-silicon-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395967\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intel\u2019s Core Ultra laptop CPUs have been its flagships ever since it retired the older generational branding scheme and the i3\/i5\/i7\/i9 branding a few years back. The Core Ultra Series 1<\/a>, Series 2<\/a>, and Series 3<\/a> processors been the ones with the newer CPU and GPU designs, and newer manufacturing technology.<\/p>\n

Intel has also offered non-Ultra Core CPUs, but these have never been particularly interesting, mostly because both the Series 1<\/a> and Series 2<\/a> chips were based on Intel\u2019s old Raptor Lake architecture. Raptor Lake was the code name for 2023\u2019s 13th-generation Core family, and most versions of Raptor Lake were the same silicon used for 2022\u2019s 12th-generation Core CPUs.<\/p>\n

But the naming and renaming of Raptor Lake apparently couldn\u2019t last forever. Intel\u2019s new, non-Ultra Core Series 3 processors<\/a> are new silicon, a return to the days when you could expect high-end and midrange Intel chips to include many of the same advancements despite their performance differences.<\/p>\n


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\u201cWildcat Lake\u201d shares some things in common with Panther Lake, but it\u2019s a slower and simpler design.<\/p>\n

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\n \u201cWildcat Lake\u201d shares some things in common with Panther Lake, but it\u2019s a slower and simpler design.<\/p>\n

Credit:<\/p>\n

Intel<\/p>\n

These new chips are codenamed \u201cWildcat Lake,\u201d and while there are some commonalities with the Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs (aka Panther Lake), the non-Ultra CPUs use a simpler design with much less computing power.<\/p>\n

Each chip uses two silicon tiles: a compute tile that includes a CPU with up to two Cougar Cove P-cores and four Darkmont E-cores; an integrated GPU with one or two of Intel\u2019s latest-generation Xe3 GPU cores; and (usually) an NPU capable of up to 17 trillion operations per second (TOPS). A separate platform controller tile built on an unspecified non-Intel process provides up to two Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 connectivity, and six PCIe 4.0 lanes for external connectivity. All of the chips support up to 48GB of LPDDR5X-7467, or up to 64GB of DDR5-6400, and use a base power level of 15 W and maximum boost power level of 35 W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intel\u2019s Core Ultra laptop CPUs have been its flagships ever since it retired the older generational branding scheme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-395967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}