Intel details Core 300 “Wildcat Lake” series: up to 6 CPU cores, 2 GPU cores and slow

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Intel’s smallest Core Ultra 300 mobile design is not Panther Lake, meet Wildcat Lake



Intel has shared a new slide with updated positioning for Wildcat Lake (WCL) alongside Panther Lake (PTL). The slide shows up in a “Core Ultra 3 for edge” deck, and it adds more concrete specs for WCL.

The same slide also introduces a few inconsistencies versus earlier material. The clearest one is memory: WCL is now listed at LPDDR5x-6800, which is lower than what Intel previously showed on a separate slide.

WCL gives up a lot versus PTL across CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O. The slide lists no PCIe 5.0 for WCL, a lower NPU figure (18 TOPS vs 50 TOPS on PTL entries), and much slower memory ceilings (LPDDR5x-6800 vs PTL entries that go up to LPDDR5x-8533 or even 9600 MT/s on certain boards).

On graphics, WCL is shown with 2 Xe cores, while Panther Lake starts at 4 Xe cores in the Intel Graphics configurations, and goes up to an Intel Arc GPU with 12 Xe cores on select PTL systems. CPU core counts also separate the parts, since WCL tops out at 2P cores and does not list any E-cores, while PTL scales up to 4P + 8E + 4LPE.

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