Just don’t call it Celestial

As part of its recent Tech Tour US event, Intel took the wraps off its trio of upcoming Panther Lake SoCs. It also walked us through the improvements and expected performance of its new Xe3 graphics architecture, which is coming to market in the form of two integrated GPU tiles for Panther Lake. For more details on the three primary configurations of Panther Lake SoCs, as well as a more general overview of Panther Lake’s CPU resources, check out our dedicated article.

First things first: Intel emphasized that Xe3 is not based on the Celestial architecture, even though its name conveniently maps to that codename’s place in Intel’s past roadmaps. Let us repeat: this is not Celestial. […]