Intel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only

Last October, Intel launched its Panther Lake mobile processor architecture, and when we got our hands on a Core Ultra Series 3 CPU several months later, we were greatly impressed by its gaming chops. Now it's back again with Wildcat Lake: all the best parts of Panther Lake, but cut down to a kitten-sized little chip.

Officially called Core Series 3 (no Ultra here), the new processors utilise the same Cougar Cove P-cores and Darkmont E-cores as in Panther Lake (PTL), but there are considerably fewer of them, even in the top-end model. For example, the Core 7 360 sports just two P-cores and four E-cores, for a total of six threads.<...