Menu Home News Hardware Gaming Mobile Finance Deals Reviews How To Wccftech HardwareLeak Intel’s Panther Lake SoCs Confirmed To Feature Cougar Cove P-Cores & Darkmont E-Cores; Reveals New PCI ID Listings Muhammad Zuhair • Apr 27, 2025 at 02:49pm EDT Well, Intel's next-gen Panther Lake platform is pretty close to launch, and developers have started to speed up the enablement work, notably on the individual architectures. Intel's Panther Lake SoCs To See a Significant Leap In Performance, Especially With AI-Oriented Workloads The industry has huge hopes for Panther Lake, not only because it comes at a time when Intel's CPU business is dwindling, but PTL is going to be Intel's first chip to feature the in-house 18A process node, which will also decide the fate of IFS. Now, based on new PCI ID listings spotted by @InstLatX64, it is evident that Panther Lake will feature Cougar Cove P-Cores & Darkmont E-Cores, and this configuration will likely put Intel at a competitive position in the mobile segment, to say the least. Well, the Darkmont E-core architecture was initially said to debut with Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs, which will also be built on Intel's 18A, while Panther Lake was said to come with Skymont for the E-cores, but it seems like plans have now been changed. While specific details around Panther Lake and its SKUs are confined for now, we do know that the lineup is set to feature the Xe3 "Celestial" graphics architecture, and interestingly, we did get information about what some of the SKUs would look like in a previous leak. PTL-H SKU #1: 4 P-Cores + 8 E-Cores + 0 LP-E Cores + 4 Xe3 Cores (45W) PTL-H SKU #2: 4 P-Cores + 8 E-Cores + 4 LP-E Cores + 12 Xe3 Cores (25W) PTL-H SKU #3: 4 P-Cores + 8 E-Cores + 4 LP-E Cores + 4 Xe3 Cores (25W) PTL-U SKU #1: 4 P-Cores + 0 E-Cores + 4 LP-E Cores + 4 Xe3 Cores (15W) In terms of power ratings, Panther Lake is claimed to come with max PL2 ratings of 80W (45W PL1), 64W (28W PL1) and 54W (15W PL1), so it is safe to say that we are looking at top-notch performance here. Interestingly, PTL will also feature the 5th generation of Intel's dedicated AI engines called the NPUs, which will reportedly equip the SoCs with up to 180 TOPS of AI power, which is a significant leap compared to what we saw with Lunar Lake. Panther Lake-H CPUs will support LPDDR5X 6800/7467/8533 MT/s speeds for memory support and DDR5 6400/7200 MT/s speeds. Intel Panther Lake | Image Credits: PCGH Well, this is a quick roundup of PTL SKUs. In terms of release dates, we are likely targeting an H2 2025 window, with volume production moving into 2026. We do know that Panther Lake is already being sampled with partners, so it won't be long before we see the lineup in the markets. Intel Panther Lake CPU Configurations (Source: @Jaykihn) Die SKUP-Cores (Cougar Cove)E-Cores (Darkmont)LP-E Cores (Skymont?)Xe3 GPU Cores (Celestial)PL1 TDPPL2 TDP Panther Lake-H4841225W45W Panther Lake-H484425W45W 480425W45W Panther Lake-U404415W28-30W? Subscribe to get an everyday digest of the latest technology news in your inbox Follow us on Topics Sections Company Some posts on wccftech.com may contain affiliate links. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com © 2025 WCCF TECH INC. 700 - 401 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada