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Intel Details Wildcat Lake Cost Savings With 38% Smaller Compute Die Vs Panther Lake

At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed the silicon and packaging trade-offs behind its Core Series 3 processors, otherwise known as Wildcat Lake, revealing how it reduced the compute die area by 38% compared to Panther Lake (Core Ultra Series 3). Designed for mainstream notebooks and edge deployments, Wildcat Lake pairs trimmed IP blocks with an organic multi-chip package (MCP) over Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) to minimize total platform cost.

Notably, Wildcat Lake is based on the same cutting-edge Intel 18A process node as Panther Lake. The difference (one of them) is that Wildcat Lake chips are "purpose-engineered for value" and target lower-cost laptop solutions for schools, small businesses, and value-conscious buyers. It also enables Windows OEMs to gain better footing in the budget segment to compete against Apple's MacBook Neo.

"Intel Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, bring right-sized AI capabilities to price-sensitive laptops and...

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I Put Coway’s Airmega Halo Through a Smoke Test. The Results Were Complicated

Inside, the Halo has a cylindrical IEST-certified HEPA three-stage filter that claims to capture 99.97 percent of nano-sized particles down to 0.3 microns, but in my opinion the coolest feature is the MegaScan Particle Sensor, which continuously monitors the air in real time to detect smoke, fine dust,

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The iPhone Duo’s hardware doesn’t look special, but its software might be

With the iPhone Duo, Apple has pulled off a familiar trick. It arrives into a mature Android foldable market with a handful of hardware features we’ve mostly already seen elsewhere, but paired with a level of software polish that makes a lot of them feel new again. It’s

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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies about

Apple stock price target cut to $370 from $380 by BofA: What investors should know

BofA Securities has lowered its Apple stock price target to $370 from $380. The investment firm kept its Buy rating on Apple shares, meaning it still expects the stock to perform well despite the lower target. The main reason for the lower target is Apple’s iPhone pricing. BofA said

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I Put Coway’s Airmega Halo Through a Smoke Test. The Results Were Complicated

The iPhone Duo’s hardware doesn’t look special, but its software might be

Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

Apple stock price target cut to $370 from $380 by BofA: What investors should know