Intel has recently made an official announcement regarding its third - generation Core Ultra processor, internally codenamed Panther Lake. This marks Intel's first client System - on - a - Chip (SoC) built on the cutting - edge 18A process technology.

The HWMonitor tool, version 1.60, released by CPUID, now offers support for this processor series. This support effectively confirms the naming conventions and Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) models of the Panther Lake processors.

The Panther Lake series is categorized into three main families: the Core Ultra X H - series, the Core Ultra H - series, and the Core Ultra U - series.

In the H - series, we have the Core Ultra X9 388H, X7 368H/358H, X5 338H, along with the standard 9/7/5 series which includes 375H, 355H/345H, and 325H. The U - series comprises the Core Ultra 7 360U, Ultra 5 350U/340U, and Ultra 3 320U.

These new processors are equipped with Cougar Cove performance cores and Darkmont efficiency cores. The X - series models are outfitted with either 12 or 10 Xe cores, while the standard models come with 4 Xe cores.

The integrated graphics retain the B - series naming and are part of the new - generation Xe3p architecture.

There have been changes in the naming rules for the Core Ultra 300 series SKUs. High - end chips now feature letter designations (such as X9, X7, X5) and use '8' as a suffix. In contrast, the low - power U - series and standard gaming variants continue to follow their original numeric naming conventions.