Intel Core Series 3 (Wildcat Lake) CPU at Hot Chips 2026
Intel presented its new 'Wildcat Lake' Core Series 3 chips at the Hot Chips 2026 conference, detailing the architecture and engineering trade-offs for their budget-focused SoC. The design reuses existing core architectures to optimize costs for edge and consumer devices.
Why it matters
As Intel's first high-volume chiplet-based budget CPU, this product represents a strategic shift in how the company balances performance and manufacturing costs in a competitive market.
For our second presentation from this morning’s first CPU session, we have Intel, who is presenting on their Core Series 3 chips. Also known by the codename Wildcat Lake, Intel launched this family of chips earlier this year as the budget counterpart to Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake). This morning’s presentation, in turn, goes into the architecture of Wildcat Lake, while discussing some of the engineering tradeoffs Intel made to hit their BoM and power targets for their first high volume and low-priced chiplet-based CPU.
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