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Intel CES 2026 keynote live blog: Panther Lake debuts in Core Ultra Series 3 laptop CPUs, Arc B390 IGP announced

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And with that, the keynote is over. Intel closed things out with some cool "Panther" sound effects.

"This will be the most broadly adopted AI PC platform Intel has ever shipped." Over 200 designs coming from Intel's partners, with preorders starting tomorrow. Global availability coming January 27. (Image credit: Future)

Panther Lake is going to the edge, which is a big change for Intel. It normally segments out edge and embedded solutions, but they all fall under the Series 3 umbrella, and Intel is actually drawing attention to them. (Image credit: Future) (Image credit: Future)

Arvin is making an economics argument for local AI compute, which hits home right now with RAM prices out of control and utility costs rising in areas where AI data centers are running. (Image credit: Future)

AI feels slow to a lot of people, which is fair. If you're using ChatGPT every day, going out to the data center for every query really adds up. I think that makes a bigger difference for AI users than privacy, though that's arguably the more important reason for local AI. — Jake Roach

Perplexity CEO is now on stage, and he proclaims that deep tech is the real thought leadership in AI, and you're damn right it is. (Image credit: Future)

70B model in a 32K context, which is pretty big for a mobile SoC… and by pretty big, I mean really only rivaled by massive SoCs from Apple and Ryzen AI Max. Intel has shipped close to 4 Zetta OPs to the market, which is equivalent to about 40 data centers. I don't know if that's true, and I suspect it's not, but it's a cute figure.

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