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We're conscionable hours distant from nan commencement of CES 2026, and pinch that comes Intel's motorboat event. The spot elephantine is expected to supply much specifications connected its AI PC inaugural and nan caller processors powering it: The Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs (aka Panther Lake) are made utilizing an 18A process — that's 18 angstroms, aliases conscionable nether 2nm — and designed for high-end laptops and gaming devices.
For Intel, nan stakes astatine CES are higher than ever. In nan past 12 months, some NVIDIA and nan US government acquired ownership stakes successful nan company, helping astir double nan banal value by nan extremity of nan year. But that's still down complete much than 20 percent since 2021, arsenic rivals for illustration TSMC, Qualcomm, AMD and NVIDIA person taken nan activity mantle successful spot fabrication and AI hardware.
How to watch Intel's motorboat event
Senior VP of Intel's Client Computing Group Jim Johnson will footwear disconnected nan motorboat arena connected Monday, January 5 astatine 6PM ET. A livestream will beryllium disposable connected nan Intel Newsroom YouTube channel, which we'll station present erstwhile it's live.
What to expect from Intel astatine CES 2026
As we noted above, Intel has publically confirmed that it will beryllium highlighting "the adjacent procreation of Intel-powered PCs, separator solution, and nan AI experiences enabled by nan caller Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Processors." We'll beryllium keen to perceive if nan institution tin reside nan profitability concerns that person surrounded those next-gen chips since astatine slightest past summer, erstwhile published reports indicated that yields were still nether 50 percent. (In response, Intel told Engadget that it felt "very good" astir its trajectory connected Panther Lake, though it didn't deed nan precocious 2025 merchandise day it had envisioned astatine nan time.)
Will we get immoderate updates connected that NVIDIA partnership? It's possible. But don't expect to perceive thing astir Intel perchance fabricating nan chips for that rumored caller entry-level MacBook Air. If that comes to pass, nan announcement will decidedly beryllium astatine a clip and spot of Apple's choosing.
