Intel today formally announced the Core Series 3 low-end mobile processors previously known as [1]Wildcat Lake . These are the new Intel 18A offerings that are a step below the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs that began shipping earlier this year.

Intel Core Series 3 is designed for value buyers, commercial and essential edge devices. Intel is promoting these low-end chips against a five-year-old PC (Tigerlake) for 47% better single threaded performance, up to 41% better multi-threaded performance, and 2.8x better for GPU AI performance.

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Core Series 3 laptops will be available throughout the year and beginning today with the initial models. Edge systems built around Wildcat Lake will begin shipping later in Q2.

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The top-end SKU is the Intel Core 7 360 with 6 cores/threads, basic Intel Graphics with 2 Xe cores, and a 15 Watt base power rating with a 35 Watt turbo power. At the bottom end is the Core 3 304 with just five cores and 1 Xe core.

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Intel engineers have been working on the Wildcat Lake "WCL" Linux support at the same time as Panther Lake, so it would appear that the Wildcat Lake support should be in good standing with the upstream Linux kernel. Unfortunately I don't have any Wildcat Lake hardware at this time for confirming the Linux support or performance out of these new Intel 18A processors.

More details on the Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake via the [5]Intel press release .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Wildcat+Lake

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=intel_wildcat_lake_2_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=intel_wildcat_lake_1_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=intel_wildcat_lake_3_lrg

[5] https://newsroom.intel.com/client-computing/intel-launches-intel-core-series-3-processors-changing-the-game-for-everyday-computing?cid=iosm&source=twitter&campid=computex&content=100010283754948&icid=always-on