Panther Lake has barely just been announced, but there are many among us who are hovering over a particular subject: its Xe3 architecture and more specifically, the future Xe3P. This is, in part, expected to be part of the ARC Celestial series, but now it seems that the Compute Units (CUs) will be heading to the upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop CPUs.
The discovery was made by Lasse Kärkkäinen, who found Linux kernel patches containing a note from an Intel engineer, stating that the Xe3P will feature an LPM variant that will be supported in the next-generation desktop platform. It should be noted that Xe3P was previous associated with Nova Lake-AX, a supposed rival to AMD’s Strix Halo Series that would feature a powerful integrated graphics core, but was ultimately cancelled.
Sadly, Lasse’s discovery of the Linux kernel patch doesn’t yield any further details, but at the very least, it paints a picture of what we can expect from the Intel Core Ultra 400 desktop series, and the future of its iGPUs. On a somewhat related note, Intel also recently confirmed that its Xe3P architecture will definitely be powering its Crescent Island datacentre GPUs. That GPU will be designed for AI inference workloads, support up to 160GB of LPDDR5X memory, as well as support a wide range of data types for “tokens-as-a-service” providers.
(Source: Videocardz, Intel)
