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Intel Core Ultra X9 388H (Panther Lake)
The Intel Core Ultra X9 388H, codenamed Panther Lake, marks a historic inflection point as Intel's first commercial processor on its 18A node with Gate-All-Around transistors and backside power delivery. Announced at CES 2026, this 16-core laptop chip—with 4 Performance, 8 Efficiency, and 4 Low-Power Efficiency cores—achieves a single-core Geekbench 6 score of 3,057 and multi-core score of 17,687. Its 40% improvement in performance-per-watt compared to Arrow Lake delivers 27-hour battery life in standard productivity workloads. The integrated Arc B390 GPU and 50-60 TOPS NPU earn full Copilot+ certification for on-device AI.
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