Intel Core Series 3: Built on 18A, over 18 hours of battery life and 64% lower power

Having already revealed their high performance Core Ultra Series 3 lineup earlier this year, Intel has now announced their new Core Series 3 mobile processors too. These non-Ultra chips are designed for mainstream everyday use cases while still offering battery life and AI-ready capabilities to users.

Built on the Intel 18A process node, Team Blue claims that the Core Series 3 offers up to 64% lower processor power use, up to 2.7x AI performance, up to 2.1x better productivity performance, all day battery life of up to 18.5 hours of video streaming and are also the first Intel Core series processors fit for hybrid AI systems.

Codenamed Wildcat Lake, they feature Cougar Cove P-cores, Darkmont Low Power E-cores, NPU 5 and Xe3 GPU cores. They all have a 15W base TDP with power spikes up to 35W, and support both LPDDR5/X and DDR5 memory. The NPU won’t be able to match Copilot+ PC requirements, but are still present for smaller AI tasks.

At the top of the stack are the Intel Core 7 360 and Core 7 350, packing two P-cores and 4 LP E-cores with boosts up to 4.8GHz, a 17 TOPS NPU and two GPU cores running at up to 2.6GHz; the only difference here being that the 360 is eligible for Intel SIPP. The core layouts are mostly the same down the stack with just lower speeds, until you hit the Intel Core 3 304, which has one less P-core and one less GPU core.

Intel added that their Core Series 3 processors can be found in devices from their OEM partners such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and more from today onwards. Expect these manufacturers to release laptops powered by these new Intel Core Series 3 processors soon, likely as direct rivals to the Apple MacBook Neo.

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