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Intel just officially launched Panther Lake, its new chip for PCs, at CES.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said during a press conference that the Core Ultra Series 3 chips, which are the company’s first line of Panther Lake chips, will usher in the "next evolution of the PC."

Starting tomorrow, a whole range of consumer laptops powered by Panther Lake/Core Ultra Series 3 chips will go on sale. The most performant laptops, aimed at gamers and multimedia creators, will run on Core Ultra X9 and X7 processors, which also have integrated Intel Arc graphics.

Intel has also been touting the use of these new chips in industrial use cases like robotics, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and “smart” cities, but those won’t be available until the second quarter of this year.

As detailed in a WIRED story last fall when we had the chance to tour Intel’s most advanced semiconductor fab in Arizona, these new chips have been built using a new manufacturing process, known as 18A. The 18A manufacturing process eschews proven design techniques in favor of two new approaches to stacking transistors and moving power throughout the chips.

Intel, a beleaguered chip company that was at one time an icon of US technological innovation, is hoping that launch moments like this—as well as cash from the US government and some strategic acquisitions—will help it get its mojo back.

“I’m sorry.” It’s a rare thing to hear in the tech industry—to admit it had been wrong and turned people off the brand. But that's exactly what Dell told a group of journalists in an event leading up to CES. The apology was in reference to the company’s puzzling decision a year prior to rebrand its entire line of PCs, monitors, laptops, and accessories. The result was products such as the “Dell Pro Plus Earbuds” and the “Dell Premium 14 Laptop.” It was a mess. The worst part was that it meant killing the premium XPS brand, with its 30-year legacy in the PC space.

But just a year later, XPS is back. And Dell seems more intent than ever on reversing the ill will garnered toward it in recent years, starting here at CES. The first steps are the return of the Dell XPS 14 an

Source: Wired