Intel Unveils Ultra 3 Series of Processors

<p><strong>LAS VEGAS<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi;  Intel has unveiled its new line of Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors at CES in Las Vegas&comma; the first AI PC platform built on Intel 18A process technology that was designed and manufactured in the United States&period; Powering over 200 designs from leading&comma; global partners&comma; Series 3 will be the most broadly adopted and globally available AI PC platform Intel has ever delivered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With Series 3&comma; we are laser focused on improving power efficiency&comma; adding more CPU performance&comma; a bigger GPU in a class of its own&comma; more AI compute and app compatibility you can count on with x86&comma;” said Jim Johnson&comma; Senior Vice President and General Manager&comma; Client Computing Group&comma; Intel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Within the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 mobile lineup&comma; a new class of Intel Core Ultra X9 and X7 processors come packed with the highest performing&comma; integrated Intel Arc graphics&period; They are purpose-built for multitaskers that handle advanced workloads like gaming&comma; creation and productivity on the go&period; The top SKUs feature up to 16 CPU cores&comma; 12 X<sup>e<&sol;sup> -cores and 50 NPU TOPS&comma; delivering up to 60&percnt; better multithread performance over 77&percnt; faster gaming performance and up to 27 hours of battery life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Series 3 family also includes Intel Core processors&comma; intentionally designed to power mainstream mobile systems&period; Leveraging the same foundational architecture of Intel Core Ultra Series 3&comma; the Intel Core lineup enables more performant and efficient laptop designs at lower price points&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the first time&comma; alongside their PC counterparts&comma; Series 3 edge processors are certified for embedded and industrial use cases&comma; including extended temperature ranges&comma; deterministic performance&comma; and 24&&num;215&semi;7 reliability&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Intel Core Ultra Series 3 delivers competitive advantages in critical edge AI workloads with up to 1&period;9x higher large language model &lpar;LLM&rpar; performance&comma; up to 2&period;3x better performance per watt per dollar on end-to-end video analytics&comma; and up to 4&period;5x higher throughput on vision language action &lpar;VLA&rpar; models<sup>6<&sol;sup>&period; The integrated AI acceleration enables superior total cost of ownership &lpar;TCO&rpar; through a single system on chip &lpar;SoC&rpar; solution versus traditional multi-chip CPU and GPU architectures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pre-orders for the first consumer laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors will begin Jan&period; 6&comma; 2026&period; Systems will be available globally starting Jan&period; 27&comma; 2026&comma; with additional designs coming throughout the first half of the year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;